February 4

February 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ~ Jim Morrison
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future. ~ Charles Lindbergh (born 4 February 1902)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. ~ Charles Lindbergh (born 4 February 1902)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~ Betty Friedan
 * proposed by Fys


 * 2008
 * Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. ~ Alice Cooper (born 4 February 1948)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life. This is our modern danger — one of the waxen wings of flight. It may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge. ~ Charles Lindbergh
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ~ Charles Lindbergh
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place. ~ Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many — myself and humanity in flux. I extend a multiple of ways in experience in space. I am myself now, lying on my back in the jungle grass, passing through the ether between satellites and stars. My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. ~ Charles Lindbergh
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Fys


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; comments regarding a recent military operation.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ Hartley Shawcross, born February 4, 1902.
 * used 19 August 2003, selected by Nanobug

Suggestions
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~ Betty Friedan, born February 4, 1921, died February 4, 2006.
 * 3. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 23:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 11:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC) 3 Kalki 23:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. ~ Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier), born February 4, 1948.
 * 3. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 23:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. ~ Betty Friedan
 * 3 Kalki 23:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~ Charles Lindbergh
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:20, 2 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.