October 8

October 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion. ~ Stephanie Zacharek
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune (born 8 October 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant alike. Let Muad'dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never doubt Eternity. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune Messiah
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The year of jubilee has come; Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, The corn, drink the wine and all the harvest-home. ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." ~ Frank Herbert in Dune ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. ~ Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse : Dune ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. ~ Dennis Kucinich (born 8 October 1946)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC) ("Poor health care ..." is repeated.)
 * 4 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. ~ Dennis Kucinich
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 16:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3; I much like this assertion, but don't have a strong desire to see it used this year, and there are several others I much prefer above it.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Denji 21:32, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Give me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear! ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
 * 4 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 any truth is better than a falsehood ~ Thoreau N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~ Jesse Jackson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~ John W. Gardner
 * 2 Zarbon 05:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

''O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole. Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs Hearts of patience to unravel this, — the worth of common deeds.'' ~ Edmund Clarence Stedman ~
 * 3 Kalki 00:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 02:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I've lost any belief I ever had in scientific policy. I don't think you can have scientific policy. I think science is something like weeds, it just grows of its own accord … and if you've got the right atmosphere, the right situation … then it grows and develops of its own accord. And I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them. ~ Mark Oliphant (born 8 October 1901)
 * 3 Kalki 20:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:40, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune
 * 3 Kalki 20:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. ~ John Cowper Powys
 * 3 Kalki 21:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work. ~ Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse : Dune ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:47, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 tending to 4 N6n 16:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)


 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 7 October 2019 (UTC), as there is no clear relation to this date, but would give it a 3, leaning towards 4 on Jackson's date of birth: 29 August.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 7 October 2019 (UTC), as there is no clear relation to this date, but would give it a 3, leaning towards 4 on Jackson's date of birth: 29 August.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)