January 10



January 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2005
 * The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... … the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken. ~ Robinson Jeffers (born 10 January 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly used to kill men, but here In the sense of a symbol. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ James Anthony Froude (this was long misattributed to Lord Acton, and initially presented as a quote by him; subsequent research for Wikiquote helped bring to an end some of the most extensive uses of this misattribution.)
 * used 30 June 2004, selected by Kalki

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ Robinson Jeffers
 * used 9 August 2004, selected by Kalki

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. ~ Lord Acton
 * used 18 January 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
"You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds.
 * Posted on 7 January 2006, at the January 10th QotD page, by IP 67.37.190.144
 * 2 Kalki 23:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC) (no clear correlation to the date)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia, Australia and white Antartica: those are the eyelids that never close; this is the staring unsleeping Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars. ~ Robinson Jeffers (born January 10, 1887)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education. ~ Fukuzawa Yukichi
 * 3 Zarbon 06:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 20:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:45, 9 January 2016 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.