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2012

January

01-01 → I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
01-02 → By adversity are wrought
The greatest work of admiration,
And all the fair examples of renown
Out of distress and misery are grown.
01-03 → The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
01-04 → I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
01-05 → Warning: A cheat is running the hospital! Hospital administrator is cheating!
01-06 → Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth
01-07 → The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
01-08 → Friends can help each other.
01-09 → Patria est ubicumque est bene
("Where ever we are well, that is our country")
01-10 → A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
01-11 → Back in the garage with my bullshit detector.
01-12 → Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
01-13 → Via, Veritas, Vita
("The Way, The Truth, The Life")
01-14 → The aims of life are the best defense against death.
01-15 → With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
01-16 → If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
01-17 → Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
01-18 → Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
01-19 → Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
01-20 → Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!
01-21 → You won't bore him, honey. You won't even get a chance to talk.
01-22 → Hi. I'm Marcus.
01-23 → Viriliter Age
("Act Courageously")
01-24 → Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
01-25 → Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
01-26 → Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
01-27 → The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
01-28 → Ah, thank you, Buzz off to you too.
01-29 → Virtute et armis
("by valor and arms")
01-30 → "All along the watchtower, princes kept the view;
While the women came and went, barefoot servants too."
01-31 → I was, I am, I shall be!

February

02-01 → The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
02-02 → Free at last! Free at last!
02-03 → A Mari Usque Ad Mare
("From Sea to Sea")
02-04 → A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
02-05 → Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive
02-06 Destroy the evil, promote love and peace, and one day you'll get rewarded from the heaven
02-07 → Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War!
02-08 → Ab ovo
("From the beginning")
02-09 → Brutum fulmen
(Harmless thunderbolt)
02-10 → "Poo-Tee-Weet?"
02-11 → I fought the law and the law won.
02-12 → Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
02-13 → Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
02-14 → A song is anything that can walk by itself.
02-15 → Rise above principle and do what's right.
02-16 → Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art.
02-17 → The only thing that's important is random acts of kindness
02-18 → You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand.
02-19 → Follow the leaders
02-20 → Computers never go on strike
02-21 → Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again?
02-22 → History is at once freedom and necessity.
02-23 → Castigat ridendo mores
(Correct customs by laughing at them)
02-24 → In the Rialto you have rated me
02-25 → Absentem laedit cum ebrio qui litigat
("To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there")
02-26 → I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
02-27 (This space for rent)
02-28 → In everything I am, in everything I do
I am your servant, I need you.
02-29 → Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

March

03-01 → All the young punks
Laugh your life 'cuz there ain't much to cry for.
03-02 → That murderous, fascist bitch.
03-03 → Dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria!
03-04 → We'll leave the light on for you!
03-05 (This space for rent)
03-06 (This space for rent)
03-07 (This space for rent)
03-08 → Don't judge a book just by the cover.
03-09 → You're in suspension
03-10 → The kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately.
03-11 → We'll always have Paris.
03-12 → You only see me for the clothes I wear
03-13 → Help, help, I'm being repressed!
03-14 → A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
03-15 → Age quod agis
("Do what you are doing")
03-16 → The greatest medicine is a true friend.
03-17 → I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
03-18 → I said that.
03-19 → Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
03-20 → Aut imiteris aut oderis
("Either imitate it or hate it")
03-21 → We cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond…
03-22 → Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
03-23 → The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.
03-24 → Always contented with his life,
and with his dinner, and his wife.
03-25 → The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
03-26 → So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
03-27 → Send danger from the east unto the west,
So honor cross it from the north to south.
03-28 → I just lost all m' picnic spirit.
03-29 → So now I'm home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out too much . . . Good God!
03-30 → Time and change can do no more.
03-31 → Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,
And lilies face the March-winds in full blow.

April

04-01 → April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
04-02 → You never listen to a word i said
04-03 → Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
04-04 → Revolution is a successful effort to get rid of a bad government and set up a worse.
04-05 → The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
04-06 → The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
04-07 → When joy disappears, look for your mistake.
04-08 → The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
04-09 → Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
04-10 → If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
04-11 → Now is when things happen
04-12 → Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat
("It was rather that war ended, than that peace began")
04-13 → Barbarus hic ego sum
("I am the barbarian here")
04-14 Look both ways, before you cross the street.
04-15 → Trying is just the first step toward failure.
04-16 A fan remembers the art of an artist better than the artist himself.
04-17 → I sit on the kerb
The driver changes
the wheel. [...]
04-18 → [...] I don't like to be, where I'm coming from.
I don't like to be, where I'm going to. [...]
04-19 → [...] Why do I watch the wheel change
With impatience?
04-20 → Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.
04-21 → The bad affright, afflict the best!
04-22 → I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks!
04-23 → Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
04-24 Debate and discuss but don't argue with a friend; you may win the argument, but you will lose your friend.
04-25 → I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy me love.
04-26 → The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
04-27 Everybody has a story to tell
04-28 → All your base are belong to us
04-29 It is hard to improve without admitting error.
04-30 → Let's put it on. The last suit you'll ever wear.

May

05-01 → I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
05-02 → Let the darkness be gone and let there be light.
05-03 → Aurora Musis amica
("Dawn is friend to the Muses")
05-04 If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
05-05 → It ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.
05-06 → You're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
05-07 → Bellum omnium contra omnes
("The war of all against all")
05-08 → Give it to him. Why? It's his.
05-09 → They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipe
05-10 → At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
05-11 → I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
05-12 → No object is so ugly that, under certain conditions, it will not look beautiful.
05-13 → Nil posse creari de nihilo.
("Nothing can be created from nothing.")
05-14 → I'm starting with the man in the mirror; I'm asking him to change his ways
05-15 → This is my own, my native land!
05-16 → Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
05-17 → Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
05-18 → Everything goes there
05-19 → You can not become a fat man by one meal.
05-20 → Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
05-21 → Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
05-22 → If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.
05-23 → So I got that going for me, which is nice.
05-24 → That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen!
05-25 → A towel … is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have.
05-26 → You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
05-27 → I can't think of a better way to spend the night.
Than speeding around underneath the yellow lights.
05-28 → Certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
05-29 Don't pull kitty's tail. Don't dump junk articles on Wikipedia.
05-30 → One must be a little foolish, if one does not want to be even more stupid.
05-31 Generally, if a door is locked, it will not open unless you have the key

June

06-01 → Bis dat qui cito dat
("He gives twice who gives promptly")
06-02 → Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts
06-03 → Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!
06-04 → Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
06-05 → "You fight like a dairy farmer"
"How appropriate. You fight like a cow."
06-06 → If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
06-07 → You owe me money!
06-08 → Caedimus, inque vicem praebemus crura sagittis
("We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")
06-09 → Of course you have to support the troops.
06-10 → Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
06-11 → A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
06-12 → Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
06-13 → Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.
06-14 → Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
06-15 → Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
06-16 → When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
06-17 → If youth knew, if age could.
06-18 → Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
06-19 → This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
06-20 → A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
06-21 → What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?
06-22 → We find the defendants incredibly guilty.
06-23 → Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.
06-24 → Causa latet, vis est notissima
("The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.")
06-25 → Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
06-26 → You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
06-27 → All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
06-28 → Haste is blind and improvident.
06-29 → How about 'Cloudcuckooland'?
06-30 → A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

July

07-01 → I find then, that i am but a bad anatomist.
07-02 → Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
07-03 → Eureka!
07-04 → Remember what we are doing here.
07-05 → We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
07-06 → Tho' losses and crosses
Be lessons right severe,
There's wit there, ye'll get there,
Ye'll find nae otherwhere.
07-07 → All of a sudden, she's playing Hamlet's mother!
07-08 → Cito enim arescit lacrima, præsertim in alienis malis
("Soon indeed is dried the tear, especially when it is shed for the misfortunes of others")
07-09 → There's a war going down between my brothers tonight
I dont want no war going down, going down tonight.
07-10 → Possessions never meant anything to me.
07-11 → I came in here for a special offer
A guarantee personality
07-12 → It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
07-13 Argumentum ad Jimbonem
07-14 → Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
07-15 → Rattle his bones over the stones;
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!
07-16 → We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
07-17 → I came, I saw vandalism, I reverted it and warned the vandal
07-18 → Livery - Like a liver
07-19 Everyone is part-gnome
07-20 → The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
07-21 → The better part of valour is discretion.
07-22 → This is english up with which i will not put.
07-23 → Robert De Niro's waiting, talking Italian
07-24 → I have seen of the street
07-25 → Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!
07-26 → The sea! The sea!
07-27 → Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
07-28 → I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words.
07-29 → A government of laws, and not of men.
07-30 → By his disobedience of God's law, Adam lost everything for himself.
07-31 → Beware of the false teachers — men who come to you in sheep's fleeces, but beneath that disguise they are ravenous wolves.

August

08-01 Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
08-02 → War is hell.
08-03 → An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made.
08-04 If I want your opinion, I'll ask for it.
08-05 → Wir leben immer in einer Welt, die wir uns selbst bilden.
"We live in a world we ourselves create."
08-06 → Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
08-07 → The internet is an elite organization.
08-08 → Remember that all is opinion.
08-09 → With my good eye on the beat
08-10 → It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
08-11 → Aw, come on gravity… You used to be cool.
08-12 → L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'être bien battu.
"The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
08-13 → Printers have persecuted me without a cause.
08-14 → L'amour est enfant de Bohême, il n'a jamais, jamais connu de loi
"Love is a gypsy's child, it has never, never known the law"
08-15 → Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
08-16 → In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
08-17 → The Internet? Is that thing still around?
08-18 → Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
08-19 → I kid you not.
08-20 → He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
08-21 → Fun is good.
08-22 → Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
08-23 → Help you I can, yes.
08-24 → One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
08-25 → Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?
08-26 → When frustrations build
clicking on the star
Brings one closer to WikiNirvana
08-27 → There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
08-28 → I never apologise. I'm sorry but that's just the way I am.
08-29 → This is legacy-
young lives respected, cherished, valued, helped
to sprint, swim, bowl, box, play, excel, belong;
believe community is self in multitude-
the way the past still dedicates to us
its distant, present light. The same high sky,
same East End moon, above this reclaimed wilderness,
where relay boys are raced by running ghosts.
08-30 → The art of quoting is the art of those who cannot think for themselves.
08-31 → He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

September

09-01 → It's never too late to do something.
09-02 → The public will our guide, the public good our end.
09-03 → When Johnny comes marching home again…
09-04 → DON'T PANIC!
09-05 → The Future Is Unwritten
09-06 → Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
09-07 → Brevity is the soul of wit.
09-08 → Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
09-09 → We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
09-10 → Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
09-11 → The time for action has past, the time for reflection has come.
09-12 You want to step outside?
09-13 → Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain.
09-14 → My usual authoritarian and bossy manner.
09-15 → A joke is a very serious thing.
09-16 → Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
09-17 Oh brother, where art thou?
09-18 → A few words spoken quietly mean so much when said just right.
09-19 → …and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
09-20 → Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
09-21 → An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
09-22 → The buck stops here!
09-23 → To every cow her half, to every book it's copy.
09-24 → My own fellow countrymen won't kill me.
09-25 → Say, from whence you owe such strange intelligence.
09-26 → Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
09-27 → If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
09-28 → What's this I find to my surprise
Those fans that I idolized
No longer seem to exist
09-29 → All roads lead to Rome.
09-30 → All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

October

10-01 → Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who.
10-02 → When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
10-03 → What shall I call thee?
10-04 → Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
10-05 → I'm not a witch! I'm not a witch!
10-06 → To believe in the indestructible element.
10-07 → If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
10-08 → Yeah, it's your principles at stake.
10-09 → Be not the slave of Words.
10-10 → Don't believe everything on the internet.
10-11 → I'll be good.
10-12 → A whiff of grapeshot.
10-13 → Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
10-14 → I pray thee cease thy counsel.
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.
10-15 → Everything was his idea... except my leaving him.
10-16 → What I did had no significance at all.
10-17 → If they can make a law then I can break a law
If I can break the law will the law break me?
10-18 → We now know a thousand ways not to build a lightbulb
10-19 → The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
10-20 → All men are equal before fish.
10-21 → This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
10-22 → Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.
10-23 → The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
10-24 → floccinaucinihilipilification
10-25 → Whatever you do, don't click here.
10-26 → Is there no treacle in Gilead?
10-27 → It's not the votes that count. It's who counts the votes.
10-28 → Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
10-29 → The more, the merrier!
10-30 → To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
10-31 → The faster you go, the shorter you are.

November

11-01 → In the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed.
11-02 → Boys throw stones at frogs for fun, but the frogs don't die for 'fun', but in sober earnest.
11-03 → If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting [bugs] in.
11-04 → Smart Talented Unique Person In Demand
11-05 Make Today Count
11-06 → The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
11-07 → I Can Haz Pony?
11-08 → Has he not a rogue's face?
11-09 → From each according to the rules, to each according to consensus.
11-10 → I'm gonna prowl your neighborhood.
11-11 → Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
11-12 → I am a very foolish, fond old man,
Fourscore an upward' not an hour more or less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
11-13 → Peace, peace!
Doth thou not see my baby at my breast?
11-14 → The leads are weak? You're weak!
11-15 → Database, n.: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
11-16 → My God, it's full of stars.
11-17 → I praise loudly. I blame softly.
11-18 → Other Voices, Other Rooms.
11-19 → You stand there beating on your little war drum.
11-20 → My dear, I don't give a damn.
11-21 → These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume.
11-22 → Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
11-23 → He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
11-24 → A bump in the road will not end the journey.
11-25 → My heart is harden'd, I cannot repent.
11-26 → I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less about the imperfections of my garden.
11-27 → "You're looking very umbrella tonight!"
"Now, would that be an opened or a closed umbrella, Mr. Parker?"
11-28 → The solitary monk who shook the world.
11-29 → Ce qu'il faut éviter, c'est moins l'erreur que la contradiction avec soi-même ; c'est surtout par cette seconde faute que l'autorité perd de sa force.
(The thing to avoid is not so much error as self-contradiction. It is especially by the latter that authority loses its force.)
11-30 → A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

December

12-01 → Get up! Your voices are needed.
12-02 → They're stealing all your time, so what are you gonna do?
12-03 → What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential.
12-04 → User, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
12-05 → Three choices,
One bullet,
One trigger,
Guess who gets to pull it?
12-06 → Pointless execution, verbal pollution.
12-07 → I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
12-08 → Caelum non animum mutant
("They change the sky, not their heart")
12-09 → It's your problem, not mine. This is my seat and I'm not moving.
12-10 → I don't wanna hear about what the rich are doing
12-11 → Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
12-12 → I did it my way.
12-13 → But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; an age that melts with unperceived decay, and glides in modest innocence away.
12-14 → I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
12-15 → We therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
12-16 → Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
12-17 Great Runes, n.
12-18 → I just got an extension:
The office had run out of space.
12-19 → The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
12-20 → Stare in amusement then look away.
12-21 → We were not created equal and we are not all the same.
12-22 → Everybody has a story to tell.
12-23 If you have a belly-button, you're entitled to make mistakes.
12-24 → Put my name down on that list!
12-25 → O most illustrious of the days of time!
Day full of joy and benison to earth
When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
12-26 → Politeness, n.: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
12-27 → You know I've tried to keep it short
12-28 → I'm not dead!
12-29 → — How do you know she is a witch?
— She looks like one.
12-30 → Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.
He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
12-31 → Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

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