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March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
• 1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
• 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• 1814 – Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
• 1827 – Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
• 1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
• 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating Antonio Meucci by just 4 hours.
• 1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
• 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
• 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
• 1936 – World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
• 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
• 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
• 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
• 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic "This time the struggle is for our freedom" speech at Ramna Race Course, calling upon the Bengali people to prepare for the freedom struggle ahead.
• 1985 – The song "We Are the World" has its international release.
• 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
• 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
• 1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
• 2007 – British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

Births

• 189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
• 1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
• 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
• 1671 – Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
• 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
• 1687 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
• 1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
• 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
• 1715 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
• 1730 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
• 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
• 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
• 1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
• 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
• 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
• 1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American publisher (The Kansas City Star) and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
• 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
• 1850 – Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
• 1850 – Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
• 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
• 1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
• 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
• 1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
• 1888 – Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
• 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
• 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
• 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS senior officer (d. 1942)
• 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Léo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
• 1927 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
• 1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret
• 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
• 1934 – Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
• 1934 – Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
• 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
• 1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
• 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
• 1942 – Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
• 1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American politician
• 1943 – Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
• 1944 – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
• 1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
• 1944 – Stanley Schmidt, American editor
• 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1945 – John Heard, American actor
• 1945 – Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
• 1946 – Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
• 1946 – Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
• 1946 – Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
• 1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
• 1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor
• 1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
• 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
• 1950 – Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
• 1950 – Billy Joe Dupree, American football player
• 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player
• 1951 – Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
• 1952 – Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)
• 1952 – Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
• 1952 – Lynn Swann, American football player
• 1955 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor
• 1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor
• 1957 – Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
• 1958 – Alan Hale, American astronomer
• 1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor
• 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress
• 1960 – Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete
• 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player
• 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
• 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American recording artist
• 1962 – Peter Manley, English darts player
• 1963 – Bill Brochtrup, American actor
• 1963 – Denyce Graves, American singer
• 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
• 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
• 1965 – Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
• 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player
• 1965 – Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
• 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
• 1966 – Joy Tanner, American actress
• 1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese mangaka
• 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer
• 1967 – Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
• 1968 – Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
• 1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player
• 1969 – Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
• 1969 – Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
• 1969 – Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver
• 1969 – Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
• 1970 – Rachel Weisz, British actress
• 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
• 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, British film producer and director
• 1972 – Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
• 1972 – Maxim Roy, Quebec actress
• 1973 – Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
• 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
• 1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer
• 1974 – Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
• 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
• 1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
• 1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress
• 1975 – TJ Thyne, American actor
• 1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Paul Cattermole, British singer, actor and member of pop group S Club
• 1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
• 1977 – Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
• 1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer
• 1979 – Amanda Somerville, American singer (Aina) and vocal coach
• 1980 – Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress
• 1982 – Kate Michael, American beauty queen
• 1982 – Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
• 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer
• 1983 – Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
• 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
• 1984 – Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
• 1985 – Thomas Erak, American guitarist
• 1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player
• 1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
• 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish hockey player
• 1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
• 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
• 1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
• 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress
• 2009 – Prince Umberto of Savoy

Deaths

• 322 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
• 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
• 308 – Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
• 413 – Heraclianus, Roman usurper
• 851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
• 1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
• 1274 – Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (b. 1225)
• 1578 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
• 1625 – Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
• 1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
• 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
• 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
• 1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
• 1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 – Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
• 1954 – Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
• 1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 – John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
• 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
• 2006 – John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1895)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Perpetua and Felicitas
• Festa e mёsuesit or Teacher's Day (Albania)
• One of the days dedicated to Vesiovus (Roman Empire)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

• selected by Kalki

2005

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ~ John Herschel (born 7 March 1792)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Burn all the statutes and their shelves:
They stir us up against our kind;
And worse, against ourselves.
We have a passion — make a law,
Too false to guide us or control!
And for the law itself we fight
In bitterness of soul.
And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose
Distinctions that are plain and few:
These find I graven on my heart:
That tells me what to do.
~ William Wordsworth in "Rob Roy's Grave" ~ (Rob Roy born 7 March 1671)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement. ~ Aristotle (date of death)

• selected by Kalki

2008

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. ~ Gary Gygax (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2009

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ~ Thomas Aquinas

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~ John Herschel

• 2 because one who does not respect himself/herself, will not respect others. Zarbon 16:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Ningauble 22:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. ~ John Herschel

• 3 Kalki 15:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 19:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

If ye are seeking Rob Roy, he's ken'd to be better than half a hunder men strong when he's at the fewest. ~ Sir Walter Scott, (Rob Roy's date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 15:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. ~ Thomas Aquinas (date of death; date of birth unknown)

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. ~ Thomas Aquinas

• 2 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs. ~ Thomas Aquinas

• 3 and lean toward a 4. Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Reason in man is rather like God in the world. ~ Thomas Aquinas

• 3 because both are hard to find. Majestic comparé. Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,
Of His Flesh the mystery sing;
Of the Blood, all price exceeding,
Shed by our immortal King. ~ Thomas Aquinas

• 2 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ~ Aristotle (date of death; date of birth unknown)

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. ~ Aristotle

• 3 because man has intellect and that is in and of itself grandiose. Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. ~ Aristotle

• 2 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

The law is reason unaffected by desire. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 22:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Would that laws were so, but this is too ironic for me.
• 1 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Frankly, I must agree with Ninguable here, at least with most understandings of the word "Law."
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC) but leaning to a 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• Great quote, but this was already used, on 1 August 2003.

And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. ~ Aristotle

• 3 and lean toward a 4. Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 22:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC) There are too many other bases for happiness, activity, and war making.
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ~ Aristotle

• 2 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ~ Aristotle

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. ~ Aristotle

• 4 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

What comes after is not always progress. ~ Alessandro Manzoni

• 2 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other. ~ Alessandro Manzoni

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 22:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Taken literally or ironically, I find this unappealing.
• 1 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide. ~ Alessandro Manzoni

• 3 Zarbon 04:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 UDScott 15:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)