July 10

July 10 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ~ Michael Palin as "Dennis" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ~ Nikola Tesla (born 10 July 1856)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation of those who are to come and point the way. ~ Nikola Tesla (born 10 July 1856)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. ~ Marcel Proust
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ Nikola Tesla
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly — not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. ~ Nikola Tesla
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. ~ Marcel Proust
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.


 * 2020


 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time. ~ Lord Kelvin. Nikola Tesla was born that day.
 * 1 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:59 (UTC) (Surely wtih the likes of Cheryl Wheeler and Arlo Guthrie born on this day, we can do better!)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:27 (UTC) (Better than Tesla, to whom all people are indebted to? Tesla made mass-use of computers which generate large amount of electricity possible with alternating current. There are not many people who contributed more to humanity than Tesla has, and very few who got as little thanks).
 * 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)
 * 1 Sorry, but bored. Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Jeff Q (talk) 10:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC). Better a quote from Telsa himself.
 * 1 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Agree that quotes by Tesla are superior to quotes about him as commemorations of his birthday, but might eventually rank this higher.
 * 0 because I agree with Jeffq. Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

That's all, folks! ~ Porky Pig voiced by Mel Blanc who died on this day.
 * 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC)
 * 2 Without context, it sounds not significant. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 0 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC) Because (1) Mel Blanc's rendition was original but we cannot render it here, and (2) the closing line was not original to the Porky Pig character, but was borrowed from Bosko.
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * "Eh... what's up, doc?" - Bugs Bunny by Mel Blanc
 * 3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 13:55 (UTC) both just so that there is a few to choose from.
 * 2 Without context, it sounds not significant. --Aphaia 21:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) would be better on Blanc's birthday perhaps.
 * 0 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Doubtless all arbitrary powers, well executed, are the most convenient, yet let it be again remembered, that delays, and little inconveniences in the forms of justice, are the price that all free nations must pay for their liberty in more substantial matters; that these inroads upon this sacred bulwark of the nation are fundamentally opposite to the spirit of our constitution; and that, though begun in trifles, the precedent may gradually increase and spread, to the utter disuse of juries in questions of the most momentous concern. ~ William Blackstone (born July 10, 1723)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC) but would probably expand this for context to read:
 * The founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived, that no man should be called to answer to the king for any capital crime, unless upon the preparatory accusation of twelve or more of his fellow subjects, the grand jury: and that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should afterwards be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion. So that the liberties of England cannot but subsist, so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, (which none will be so hardy as to make) but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it; by introducing new and arbitrary methods of trial, by justices of the peace, commissioners of the revenue, and courts of conscience. And however convenient these may appear at first, (as doubtless all arbitrary powers, well executed, are the most convenient) yet let it be again remembered, that delays, and little inconveniences in the forms of justice, are the price that all free nations must pay for their liberty in more substantial matters; that these inroads upon this sacred bulwark of the nation are fundamentally opposite to the spirit of our constitution; and that, though begun in trifles, the precedent may gradually increase and spread, to the utter disuse of juries in questions of the most momentous concern.


 * 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC) I've read this three times and I still have no idea what it means. Once I get to the semicolon, it's all downhill.

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand. ~ Carl Orff
 * 3 Kalki 20:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC) (I would probably rank this a 4, if proven to be Orff's comment, but I haven't been able to definitely source it; though I have seen it specifically cited to Orff, it has also sometimes been cited as an "ancient proverb" "ancient chinese proverb" or "old chinese proverb" — since at least as early as 1983 — though it does seem precisely characteristic of Orff's teaching philosophy.)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC) ("3" with a source)

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer. ~ Carl Orff
 * 3 Kalki 10:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:34, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 08:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs) 08:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)