October 20

October 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. ~ Leo Tolstoy
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them. ~ Tom Petty (born 20 October 1950)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for. ~ John Dewey (born 20 October 1859)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing. ~ Tom Petty ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true. ~ Tom Petty ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around and I'll keep this world from draggin' me down gonna stand my ground and I won't back down. ~ Tom Petty ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses. ~ Arthur Rimbaud
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational. ~ John Dewey
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012 & 2013 (mistakenly used twice)


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 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 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster. ~ The Six Million Dollar Man (premiered that day)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 05:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 02:26, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I have seen starry archipelagoes! and islands, Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager: Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile, A million golden birds, O future Vigor? ~ Arthur Rimbaud (born October 20, 1854)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word. ~ Arthur Rimbaud
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

If the deer had guns too, then, and only then, would hunting truly be a sport. ~ Lewis Grizzard
 * 2 Zarbon 05:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him. ~ Art Buchwald
 * 2 Zarbon 05:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 02:26, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. ~ Thomas Bartholin
 * 2 Zarbon 05:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 3 because unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Unsourced quote. DutchOff (talk) 02:26, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure. ~ Arthur Rimbaud
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Well... DutchOff (talk) 02:26, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

''It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea Gone with the sun.'' ~ Arthur Rimbaud ~
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 20 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)