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</p><dl><dt>2004</dt> <dd>The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~ <a href="/wiki/Piet_Hein" title="Piet Hein">Piet Hein</a> <ul><li>selected by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2005</dt> <dd>May the Force be with you. ~ Jedi saying; used in all <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" class="mw-disambig" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> episodes. <ul><li>selected by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a> (recent release of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith">Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith</a></i>, the last of the "prequel trilogy" of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" class="mw-disambig" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i>)</li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2006</dt> <dd>A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> (born 21 May 1688) <ul><li>selected by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2007</dt> <dd>Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a> (80th anniversary of his solo flight across the Atlantic.) <ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2008</dt> <dd><i>The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd,<br />Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;<br />And all who told it, added something new,<br />And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,<br />In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.</i><br /> ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ <ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2009</dt> <dd><i>Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,<br /> Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,<br /> Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,<br /> Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace.<br /> A prudent Chief not always must display<br /> His Pow'rs in equal Ranks, and fair Array,<br /> But with th' Occasion and the Place comply,<br /> Conceal his Force, nay seem sometimes to Fly.<br /> Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem,<br /> Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.</i><br /> ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ <ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2010</dt> <dd><i>All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,<br />As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.</i><br /> ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ <ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2011</dt> <dd>Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> <ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2012</dt> <dt></dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Trust" title="Trust">Trust</a> not your <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>; but your <a href="/wiki/Faults" title="Faults">Defects</a> to know,<br />Make use of ev'ry <a href="/wiki/Friend" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend">Friend</a> — and ev'ry <a href="/wiki/Enemy" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemy">Foe</a>.</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2013</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> and Nature's <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a> lay hid in <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a>: <br /> <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> said, "Let <a href="/wiki/Issac_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Issac Newton">Newton</a> be!" and <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> was <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>.</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2014</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Environment">environment</a> of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> has changed more rapidly and more extensively in recent years than it has ever changed before. When environment changes, there must be a corresponding <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> in life. That change must be so <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> that it is not likely to be completed in a decade or in a generation. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2015</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>I have come to <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a> … that <a href="/wiki/Theatre" title="Theatre">the stage</a> may do more than <a href="/wiki/Teach" class="mw-redirect" title="Teach">teach</a>, that much of our current <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> instruction will not <a href="/wiki/Endure" class="mw-redirect" title="Endure">endure</a> the <a href="/wiki/Test" class="mw-redirect" title="Test">test</a> of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will <a href="/wiki/Reveal" class="mw-redirect" title="Reveal">reveal</a> itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like <a href="/wiki/Righteous" class="mw-redirect" title="Righteous">righteous</a> teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is <a href="/wiki/Obliged" class="mw-redirect" title="Obliged">obliged</a> to simulate <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> itself. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Jane_Addams" title="Jane Addams">Jane Addams</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Bystander53" title="User:Bystander53">bystander</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2016</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>Some <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> will never <a href="/wiki/Learn" class="mw-redirect" title="Learn">learn</a> anything, for this <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>, because they <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> everything too soon. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2017</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">United States of America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a> is <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_Speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of Speech">protected speech</a>, even if the object of the satire doesn’t get it. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Al_Franken" title="Al Franken">Al Franken</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2018</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>He who tells a <a href="/wiki/Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Lie">lie</a>, is not sensible how great a <a href="/wiki/Task" class="mw-redirect" title="Task">task</a> he undertakes; for he must be forced to <a href="/wiki/Invent" class="mw-redirect" title="Invent">invent</a> twenty more to maintain that one. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2019</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>Some old men, by continually <a href="/wiki/Praising" class="mw-redirect" title="Praising">praising</a> the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> of their <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a>, would almost <a href="/wiki/Persuade" class="mw-redirect" title="Persuade">persuade</a> us that there were no <a href="/wiki/Fools" title="Fools">fools</a> in those days; but unluckily they are left <a href="/wiki/Themselves" class="mw-redirect" title="Themselves">themselves</a> for <a href="/wiki/Examples" class="mw-redirect" title="Examples">examples</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2020</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Teach" class="mw-redirect" title="Teach">Teach</a> me to <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> another's <a href="/wiki/Woe" title="Woe">woe</a>, <br /> To right the fault I see; <br /> That <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a> I to others show, <br /> That mercy show to me.</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2021</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>What after all, has maintained the <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> race on this old globe despite all the calamities of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> and all the tragic failings of <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">mankind</a>, if not <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> in new possibilities, and <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a> to advocate them. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Jane_Addams" title="Jane Addams">Jane Addams</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2022</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>In his own way each man <a href="/wiki/Must" class="mw-redirect" title="Must">must</a> struggle, lest the <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> become a far-off <a href="/wiki/Abstraction" title="Abstraction">abstraction</a> utterly separated from his active <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Jane_Addams" title="Jane Addams">Jane Addams</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2023</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>We fatuously <a href="/wiki/Hoped" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoped">hoped</a> that we might pluck from the <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">tragedy</a> itself a <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Common" class="mw-redirect" title="Common">common</a> <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a> which should bring its own <a href="/wiki/Healing" title="Healing">healing</a>, that we might extract from <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>’s very <a href="/wiki/Misfortunes" class="mw-redirect" title="Misfortunes">misfortunes</a> a <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cooperation" title="Cooperation">cooperation</a> which should be effective against them. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:smaller;">~ <a href="/wiki/Jane_Addams" title="Jane Addams">Jane Addams</a> ~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><ul><li>proposed by <a href="/wiki/User:Kalki" title="User:Kalki">Kalki</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt>2024</dt></dl> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <td>What do we <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">mean</a> when we say that first of all we seek <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a>? I often wonder whether we do not rest our <a href="/wiki/Hopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hopes">hopes</a> too much upon <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">constitutions</a>, upon <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a> and upon <a href="/wiki/Courts" title="Courts">courts</a>. These are <a href="/wiki/False" class="mw-redirect" title="False">false</a> hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a> of <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a> it. ... It is not the ruthless, the unbridled <a href="/wiki/Will" class="mw-disambig" title="Will">will</a>; it is not the <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. 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