January 26

January 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ Archimedes
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ Douglas MacArthur (born 26 January 1880)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared for us on Earth And who have deposited in us the power That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ Paul Newman
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth. We hope to breed a race of men whose power Dwells in hearts as open as all Space Itself, who ask for nothing but the light That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars Above will be below when man has Love. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Nvvchar, for the Republic Day of India on 26 January 2015


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki in regard to her recent death.


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * Used 24 April 2004, selected by Kalki


 * Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * Used 12 May 2006, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Just when things look darkest, they go black. ~ Paul Newman
 * 3 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I have returned. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

How strange and unforeseeable! The world had been saved, not by great rulers and statesmen, not by mystics and saints and prophets and messiahs, not by any of the holy scriptures, but by an introverted eccentric writer of mathematical texts and children's books and by the child who'd inspired him. The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden Alice, had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit. But Swaraj is the necessary condition of her work and before she can do the work, she must fulfil the condition.
 * 4 On the Republic Day of India. --Nvvchar (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC) but with a strong lean toward 3,or eventually even 4, for this quote of Sri Aurobindo

A man is only a mature boy. The theater widens as he ascends. ~ David Jewett Waller, Sr.
 * Comment from proposer:  January 26, 2015 is Waller's 200th birthday. --Jakob (talk) 01:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 3, Waller is not very famous these days, but it's a nice quote and on a highly relevant day. --Jakob (talk) 01:19, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. ~ Jean-Paul_Sartre
 * (25 January 2016)


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