July 7

July 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The more you love, the more you can love — and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. ~ Robert A. Heinlein (born 7 July 1907)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. ~ Robert A. Heinlein (born 7 July 1907)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London; anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
 * used 17 June 2007, proposed by InvisibleSun

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
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
 * 3 Kalki 5 July 2005 22:39 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 00:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and powerful, it was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jews, young and old; an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any consideration for age, for castes, for religions, whatever. That isn't an ideology, that isn't even a perverted faith. It is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London; anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
 * originally suggested by Kalki for July 13, 2005
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 10:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC) I might possibly rank this higher someday, but Ken Livingstone was quoted just last month, and Heinlein is one of those few authors who I am strongly inclined to favor nearly any year on their birthday. ~ Kalki 00:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC) — but I might have a strong inclination to use this on the 10th anniversary, in 2015. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 16:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice. ~ Michael Howard
 * 2 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige
 * 2 Zarbon 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:58, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Military policy is like cancer: Nobody knows where it comes from but it can't be ignored. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Swordplay is an odd thing; you don't really use your mind, it is much too fast for that. Your wrist thinks and tells your feet and body what to do, bypassing your brain... ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Freedom was never more than a happy accident because the common jerk, all human races, hates and fears all freedom, not only for his neighbors but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; though I do not share the level of pessimism of Heinlein's character here, I can appreciate the general tendencies are much as stated.

Nobody knows how many universes there are. Theory places no limit: any and all possibilities in unlimited number of combinations of "natural" laws, each sheaf appropriate to its own universe. But this is just theory and Occam's Razor is much too dull. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket! ~ Robert A. Heinlein in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 09:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.