December 13

December 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! ~ Anne Frank
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come. ~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. ~ Kofi Annan, elected Secretary General of the United Nations on this date, in 1996.
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2007
 * Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine (born 13 December 1797)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. ~ George Pólya (date of birth)
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2010
 * The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. ~ George Pólya (date of birth)
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2011
 * Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going. ~ Emily Carr
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ~ Eugene McCarthy (recent death)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 23:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC) link to date no longer strong.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

They that won't be counselled, can't be helped. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 1. No stated relevance for this day. InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were broken? Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's hand? Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous music of war? ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 12 December 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world... I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life. ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

O my love there are larks in our morning And the finding flame of your hands And the moss on the bank of the river And the butterflies And the whirling-mad Butterflies! ~ Kenneth Patchen
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:52, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. ~ Aga Khan IV
 * 3 Zarbon 05:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 3 for a living enemy is more deadly than one that is gone. Zarbon 05:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Might give this a 2 or even a 3 eventually, though I don't actually agree with it, in the normal interpretations of the words used.
 * 1 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 AdamKadmon 00:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 4 because after the initial act, one may be stunned as to how they lived through it. Whatever "it" is characterized by, I assume any difficult and strenuous task may be applied into the equation. Zarbon 05:05, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) I might rank this higher in the future.
 * 1 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ~ Heinrich Heine
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

''What! Think you that my flashes show me Only in lightnings to excel? Believe me, friends, you do not know me, For I can thunder quite as well.'' ~ Heinrich Heine ~
 * 3 Kalki 21:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean towards 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 19:59, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:18, 12 December 2016 (UTC)