February 2

February 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Anything different is good. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ~ Coretta Scott King (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Well, it's Groundhog Day... again... ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses (Joyce born 2 February 1882)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban (born 2 February 1915)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I'm not playing by their rules anymore! ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. ~ James Joyce
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile and cunning. ~ James Joyce
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 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 InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his announcement of retirement from NFL football.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce
 * used 16 June 2009, proposed by Kalki


 * used 16 June 2011, proposed by

Suggestions
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. ~ Harold Rosenberg (born February 2, 1906)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. ~ Harold Rosenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. ~ Harold Rosenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker 01:54, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. ~ Jane Wagner (born 2 February 1935)
 * This has now been used, for Quote of the day/September 1, 2014 3 Kalki 09:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3.5 Just A Regular New Yorker 01:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. ~ Ayn Rand (born 2 February 1905)


 * 1 Kalki 18:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 though I like the concept attributed to the "gun". - Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict — and they call it growth. At the end there’s nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 Kalki 18:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 This is way too long but I would give this a 2 if it were shortened to the last phrase "Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." - Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You're not a god. You can take my word for it — this is 12 years of Catholic school talking. ~ Andie MacDowell as "Rita" in Groundhog Day
 * 3 Kalki 23:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC) * 4 Kalki 23:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind. ~ Ayn Rand
 * 3 bystander 22:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)


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