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; 2005
: It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ [[Steve Biko]] (born 18 December 1946)
:* proposed by [[User:UDScott|UDScott]] <!-- Mistakenly suggested again in 2008:
* 4 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 06:54, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
* 0 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 20:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC) <s>* 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)</s> in my original ranking I had totally missed the prior use of this on this date in 2005, which Lyle has just today pointed out.
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: I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ [[Paul Klee]]
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 4 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 16:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 17:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
// I Failed to remove this form the suggestion area after using it last year — it has now been retired. ~ Kalki 2008·12·17
* 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Lyle|Lyle]] 15:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)-->
; 2008
: ''Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! <br> Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 22:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC) -->
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: ''Hark! the herald angels sing,<br>"Glory to the new-born King;<br>Peace on earth and mercy mild, <br> God and sinners reconciled!"<br>Joyful, all ye nations, rise.<br>Join the triumph of the skies.<br>With th'angelic hosts proclaim<br>[[Jesus|Christ]] is born in Bethlehem!''
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 01:29, 13 December 2009 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 21:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)</s>
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 22:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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: [[Nature]] can afford to be prodigal in [[Universe|everything]], the [[artist]] must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. ~ [[Paul Klee]]
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 03:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 03:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
* 4 I'll admit I had to look up a few of these words... [[User:Lyle|Lyle]] 15:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC) -->
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; 2012
{{quote of the day
| quote = ''Come, [[Desire]] of [[nations]], come,
| author = Charles Wesley
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 22:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 18:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC) -->
; 2013
{{quote of the day
| quote = The main thing [[now]] is not to paint precociously but to be, or at least become, an [[individual]]. The [[art]] of mastering [[life]] is the prerequisite for all further forms of [[expression]], whether they are [[paintings]], [[sculptures]], tragedies, or [[musical]] compositions.
| author = Paul Klee
}}
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 16:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
* 4 <font style= "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|☶]]⚡</font> 01:34, 17 December 2013 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 17:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s>
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 19:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Lyle|Lyle]] 15:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC) -->
; 2014
{{quote of the day
| quote = [[God]] buries his workmen, but carries on his [[work]].
| author = Charles Wesley
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] <!-- * 3 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 06:54, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 01:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Lyle|Lyle]] 15:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC) -->
; 2015
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Force#The_Force_of_Star_Wars|The Force]] is what gives a [[w: Jedi| Jedi]] his [[power]]. It's an [[energy]] field created by [[all]] [[living]] things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the [[galaxy]] together.
| author = [[George Lucas ]] ~<br /> in <br />~ ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]''
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] — <!-- * 4 <font style= "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|☶]]⚡</font> 23:17, 17 December 2015 (UTC) --> The first explanation of the nature of "The [[Force]]" given by [[w:Obi-Wan Kenobi|Obi-Wan Kenobi]], for the opening day of the wide release of ''[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]''.
; 2016
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> The [[animal]] which the [[Egyptians]] [[worshipped]] as [[divine]], which the [[Romans]] venerated as a [[symbol]] of [[liberty]], which [[Europeans]] in the [[ignorant]] [[Middle Ages]] anathematised as an agent of demonology, has displayed to all ages two closely blended characteristics — [[courage]] and [[self-respect]]. No matter how unfavourable the [[circumstances]], both [[qualities]] are always to the fore. Confront a [[child]], a [[puppy]], and a [[kitten]] with a sudden [[danger]]; the child will turn instinctively for [[assistance]], the puppy will grovel in abject [[submission]] to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic [[resistance]]. … The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its [[adversity]] the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
| author = Saki
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Bystander53|bystander]]<!-- Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. [[Hector Hugh Munro]] (aka [[Saki]]) (dob)
* 3 [[User:Bystander53|bystander]] ([[User talk:Bystander53|talk]]) 05:08, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
* 4 <font style= "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|☶]]⚡</font> 23:54, 17 December 2016 (UTC) but might extend this to:
:: The animal which the Egyptians worshipped as divine, which the Romans venerated as a symbol of liberty, which Europeans in the ignorant Middle Ages anathematised as an agent of demonology, has displayed to all ages two closely blended characteristics — courage and self-respect. No matter how unfavourable the circumstances, both qualities are always to the fore. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. … The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside. -->
; 2017
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> The immediate [[facts]] are what we must relate to. [[Darkness]] and [[light]], [[beginning]] and [[end]].
| author = Peter Wessel Zapffe
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <font style= "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|☶]]⚡</font> 23:52, 17 December 2017 (UTC) <s>3 <font style= "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|☶]]⚡</font> 17:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)</s> -->
; 2018
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''[[Love]] [[divine]], all loves excelling, <br /> [[Joy]] of [[heaven]] to [[earth]] come down, <br /> Fix in us thy [[humble]] [[Home|dwelling]], <br /> [[All]] thy [[faithful]] [[mercies]] crown; <br /> [[Jesu]], thou art all [[compassion]], <br /> [[Pure]] unbounded love thou art, <br /> Visit us with thy [[salvation]], <br /> Enter every trembling [[heart]].''
| author = Charles Wesley
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "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, 17 December 2018 (UTC) -->
; 2019
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''You'll never [[know]] until you try it <br /> You don't have to keep it quiet <br /><br />And I know it makes you nervous <br /> But I promise you, it's [[worth]] it <br /> To show 'em everything you kept inside <br /> Don't hide, don't hide <br /> Too shy to say, but I [[hope]] you stay <br /> Don't hide away <br /> Come out and [[play]].''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "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> 00:38, 18 December 2019 (UTC) -->
; 2020
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> ''I saw you there <br /> Too much to bear <br /> You were my [[life]] <br /> But life is far away from [[fair]]. <br /> --> ''Was I [[stupid]] to [[love]] you? <br /> Was I reckless to [[help]]? <br /> Was it [[obvious]] to everybody else <br /> That I'd fallen for a [[lie]]? <br /> You were never on my side. <br /><br /> [[Deception|Fool me]] once, fool me twice <br /> Are you [[death]] or [[paradise]]? <br /> Now you'll never see me [[cry]] <br /> There's just no [[time]] to die.''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- {{quote of the day
| quote = ''I saw you there <br /> Too much to bear <br /> You were my life <br /> But life is far away from fair. <br /> Was I stupid to love you? <br /> Was I reckless to help? <br /> Was it obvious to everybody else <br /> That I'd fallen for a lie? <br /> You were never on my side <br /> Fool me once, fool me twice <br /> Are you death or paradise? <br /> Now you'll never see me cry <br /> There's just no time to die.''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
* 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> 20:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC) -->
; 2021
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''When I'm away from you <br /> I'm [[happier]] than ever <br />[[Wish]] I could [[explain]] it better<br />I wish it wasn't [[true]]. <br /> Give me a day or two <br /> To [[think]] of something [[clever]] <br /> To write myself a letter <br /> To tell me what to do.''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
:* 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> 00:50, 18 December 2021 (UTC) -->
; 2022
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''The [[internet]]'s gone wild watching movie stars on trial <br /> While they're overturning [[Roe v. Wade]]. <br /> Now all of my [[friends]] are missing again <br /> 'Cause that's what happens when you fall in [[love]] <br /> You don't have the [[time]], you leave them all behind <br /> And you tell yourself it's fine, you're just in love. <br />And I don't get along with anyone <br />Maybe I'm the [[problem]].''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
:* 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> 00:23, 18 December 2022 (UTC) -->
; 2023
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->''I don't know how to [[feel]] <br /> But I wanna try <br /> I don't know how to feel <br /> But someday I might <br /> Someday I might <br /> <br /> Think I forgot how to be [[happy]] <br /> Something I'm not, but something I can be <br /> Something I wait for <br /> Something I'm made for.''
| author = Billie Eilish
}}
:* 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> 23:52, 17 December 2023 (UTC) -->
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* 2 we need some quotations on narrativology. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 14:11, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world. ~ [[Peter Wessel Zapffe]] (dob)
* 3 [[User:Bystander53|bystander]] ([[User talk:Bystander53|talk]]) 06:08, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
* 2 <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> 00:50, 18 December 2021 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or perhaps even 4, though I do not agree with it.
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