Ordering quotes

[SMIL - Steve Miller <SMIL@sbt.com>]

Susan: 
>>What are other list members' thoughts on organizing quotes? I'm leaning 
>>towards alphabetical by author, since mine are essentially all on the 
>>same topic.
Dave (Hill):
> I did mine alphabetically (by author), if for no other reason than I
> haven't had time to organize them thematically.
> The other difficulty with themes is deciding which ones you want, and then
> either shoehorning quotes into those themes or deciding how to deal with
> quotes that fall into more than one theme.
> I still figure I could eventually tackle those two problems, save for time
...
Mine are in a FoxPro database, organized by author within birth date (where
I have birth dates), but sortable by author, birth date, death date, or any
other column... 
The reasons I like to use birth dates are:
1.      Few others do it that way.
2.      It sometimes provides more of an interesting context.
3.      http://web..sbt.com/smil/today/choose_day.htm
<http://web..sbt.com/smil/today/choose_day.htm> .
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