July 20

July 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. ~ Education and the Social Order by Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Gaurav


 * 2004
 * We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong on first stepping onto the surface of the moon, 20th July 1969.
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated. ~ Edmund Hillary (born 20 July 1919)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~ Edmund Hillary (this attribution may be erroneous)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ~ Neil Armstrong (first words of a human on the moon)
 * proposed by 121a0012


 * 2010
 * Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by JessRek6


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933)
 * Thomas Friedman (born Thomas Lauren Friedman; July 20, 1953)
 * Carlos Santana (born Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán; July 20, 1947)
 * Frantz Fanon (born Frantz Omar Fanon; July 20, 1925)

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ~ Petrarch
 * 3 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

A good death does honor to a whole life. ~ Petrarch
 * 4 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC) this is true, but there are more important things to note than something which can be misconstrued as a glorification of honored deaths rather than honorable lives.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

It is better to will the good than to know the truth. ~ Petrarch
 * 3 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ~ Richard Owen


 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. ~ Richard Owen


 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

[L]ife itself sends its own stories across billions of years. It's a message that every one of us carries inside, inscribed in all the cells of our bodies, in a language that all life on Earth can read. ~ In commemoration of the 20 July 1822 birth of Gregor Mendel, from the eleventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:04, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 09:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 2, but would probably prefer an actual quote by Mendel, rather than a quote about the subject of genetic heredity which he pioneered.


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