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<div id="12" style="margin: 1em 0em; border: thin solid black; padding: 3px; background-color: #CFE5FF;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122); font: bold 14pt sans-serif;">[[Category:Days]][[w:September 12|September 12]]</div> <noinclude>'''Quotes of the day''' from previous years:</noinclude>

;2003
: Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ [[Niels Bohr]]

;2004
: The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ [[Carl Sagan]]

;2005
: The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] (born 12 September 1880)
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]

;2006
:When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] (born 12 September 1913)
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
* 4. [[User:Dbiv|David]] | [[User talk:Dbiv|Talk]] 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC) -->

; 2007
: Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] (born 12 September 1880)
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
* 3. [[User:Dbiv|David]] | [[User talk:Dbiv|Talk]] 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC) -->

; 2008
: If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] (born 12 September 1921)
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 09:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)</s>
* 4 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2009
: You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]]
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!--* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
* 3. [[User:Dbiv|David]] | [[User talk:Dbiv|Talk]] 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 3 because the discovery may hurt although this is such a powerful quote. [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2010
: It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~ [[Charles Dudley Warner]]
:* proposed by [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] <!-- * 3 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
* 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 19:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) <s>* 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)</s> -->

; 2011
: The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at. ~ [[Jesse Owens]]
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 02:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 08:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)</s>
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 20:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2012
{{quote of the day
| quote = There is something inside us which we don't like to [[face]] up to, from which we try to [[Protection|protect]] ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don't leave [[Earth]] in a state of primal [[innocence]]. We arrive here as we are in [[reality]], and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in [[silence]] — then we don't like it any more.
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 11:03, 10 September 2012 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. </s>-->

; 2013
{{quote of the day
| quote = It [[all]] goes so fast, and [[character]] makes the difference when it's close.
| author = Jesse Owens
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 07:58, 5 September 2013 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 08:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. // * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 23:32, 30 August 2010 (UTC) <s> </s>
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 20:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2014
{{quote of the day
| quote = Each [[civilization]] may choose one of two roads to [[travel]], that is, either [[fret]] itself to [[death]], or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the [[Universe]], turning cinders and flinders of [[stars]] into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the [[Universe]], it seeks to [[change]] that [[All|Fathomlessness]] into Something [[Fathomable]].
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 17:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. </s> -->

; 2015
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->Why assume so glibly that the [[God]] who presumably created the [[universe]] is still running it? It is certainly [[perfectly]] conceivable that He may have [[finished]] it and then turned it over to lesser [[gods]] to operate. In the same way many [[human]] institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is [[true]], for example, of most [[universities]], and of all [[great]] [[newspapers]].
| author = H. L. Mencken
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 17:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)</s>
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2016
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> Like it or not, we have placed our [[destiny]] in the hands of the [[experts]]. A [[politician]] is, after all, a kind of expert, if self-styled. Even the [[fact]] that [[competent]] experts must serve under politicians of [[mediocre]] [[intelligence]] and little foresight is a [[problem]] that we are stuck with, because the experts themselves cannot agree on any major [[world]] issue. A logocracy of quarreling experts might be no better than the [[rule]] of the mediocrities to which we are subject. The declining [[intellectual]] [[quality]] of political [[leadership]] is the result of the [[growing]] [[complexity]] of the world. Since no one, be he endowed with the highest [[wisdom]], can grasp it in its [[entirety]], it is those who are least bothered by this who [[strive]] for [[power]].
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC) -->

; 2017
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Democracy]] is the [[theory]] that the common [[people]] [[know]] what they want, and [[deserve]] to get it good and hard.
| author = H. L. Mencken
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:55, 11 September 2017 (UTC) -->

; 2018
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Truth]] would quickly cease to be [[Strangeness|stranger]] than [[fiction]], once we got as used to it.
| author = H. L. Mencken
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:55, 11 September 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s> -->

; 2019
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Clarity]] of [[thought]] is a shining point in a vast expanse of unrelieved [[darkness]]. [[Genius]] is not so much a [[light]] as it is a constant [[awareness]] of the surrounding gloom, and its typical [[cowardice]] is to bathe in its own glow and avoid, as much as possible, looking out beyond its boundary. No matter how much genuine [[strength]] it may contain, there is also, inevitably, a considerable part that is only the [[pretense]] of that strength.
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:42, 11 September 2019 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4</s> -->

; 2020
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> He who [[must]] be what he is, may curse his [[fate]], but cannot [[change]] it; on the other hand, he who can transform himself has no one in the [[world]] but himself to [[blame]] for his [[failings]], no one but himself to hold [[responsible]] for his dissatisfaction.
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) </s> -->

; 2021
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> It is better to [[die]] for an [[idea]] that will [[live]], than to live for an idea that will die.
| author = Steve Biko
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC) -->;  in regard to the anniversary of his death.

; 2022
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Humanity|Man]] does not [[create]] [[gods]], in spite of [[appearances]]. The [[times]], the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his [[cooperation]] or [[rebellion]] comes to him from outside.
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 21:12, 11 September 2022 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> -->

; 2023
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''Cancel me not — for what then shall remain? <br /> Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes, <br /> A root or two, a torus and a node: <br /> The inverse of my [[verse]], a [[null]] domain.''
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 21:57, 11 September 2023 (UTC) <s>* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)</s> -->

; 2024
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[Truth]] would quickly cease to be [[Strangeness|stranger]] than [[fiction]], once we got used to it.
| author = H. L. Mencken
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:09, 12 September 2024 (UTC) --> 

; 2025
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->[[Faith]] as well as [[science]] endowed the visible [[world]] with properties that eliminated blind, incalculable [[chance]] as the [[author]] of all events. The [[war]] of [[good]] and [[evil]] present in all [[religions]] does not always [[end]], in every faith, with the [[victory]] of good, but in every one it establishes a clear [[order]] of [[existence]]. The [[sacred]] as well as the [[profane]] rests on that [[universal]] order...
| author = Stanisław Lem
}}:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order... ~ [[Stanisław Lem]]
* 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:59, 11 September 2025 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) </s> — but extended slightly for context. -->


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

* Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems — neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] (used on [[17 May]] 2004)

* One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken (used [[20 August]] 2004)

* Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]] (used [[29 March]] 2006)

* [[All]] of us, if we are of reflective [[habit]], like and [[admire]] men whose fundamental [[beliefs]] differ [[radically]] from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the [[voters]] he does not face [[Human|men]] of [[sense]]; he faces a [[mob]] of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the [[fact]] that they are quite incapable of weighing [[ideas]], or even of [[comprehending]] any save the most elemental — men whose whole [[thinking]] is done in terms of [[emotion]], and whose dominant emotion is [[dread]] of what they cannot [[understand]]. So confronted, the candidate must either [[Conformity|bark with the pack]] or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most [[devious]] and [[mediocre]] — the man who can most adeptly disperse the [[notion]] that his [[mind]] is a virtual [[vacuum]]. <br /> The [[U.S. President|Presidency]] tends, year by year, to go to such men. As [[democracy]] is [[perfected]], the office represents, more and more closely, the inner [[soul]] of the [[people]]. We move toward a lofty [[ideal]]. On some [[great]] and [[glorious]] day the plain folks of the land will reach their [[heart]]'s [[desire]] at last, and the [[w:White House|White House]] will be adorned by a downright [[moron]]. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]]
:* Used [[1 April]] [[2017]]; proposed by {{user|Kalki}}
<!-- We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ [[H. L. Mencken]] (born 12 September 1880)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

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Dalton McGuinty. He's an evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet. (sorry) ~ Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (from a [[w:Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet|press release]], released this day)
* 3 ~ [[User:MosheZadka|MosheZadka]] [[User talk:MosheZadka|(Talk)]] 19:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
* 1. Quite funny but not really very thought-provoking. [[User:Dbiv|David]] | [[User talk:Dbiv|Talk]] 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. ~ [[Jesse Owens]] (born 12 September 1913)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 09:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. ~ [[Charles Dudley Warner]]
* 3 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]]
* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for — obviously— what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]]
* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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We have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable. ~ [[Stanisław Lem]]
* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:44, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

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