July 19

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

• selected by Kalki

2005

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ Otto von Bismarck

• The Franco-Prussian War von Bismarck engineered began on 19 July 1870.
• proposed by AllanHainey

2006

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. ~ Edgar Degas

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edgar Degas

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ Walter Cronkite (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

I've fallen and I can't get up. ~ Dorothy McHugh as Mrs. Fletcher in a famous commercial. Dorothy died on July 19th. See I've fallen and I can't get up

• 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:24, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• 2 AllanHainey June 30, 2005 08:16 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC) with very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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I should like to be famous and unknown. ~ Edgar Degas

• 3 InvisibleSun 12:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC), with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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War does not determine who is right — only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell

• proposed by IP 60.234.48.116, no clear relation to date.
• 1 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC) good quote, but no clear relation to date.
• 4 if it were used on the right date Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Father Ted (series two episode, "Hell") Father Dougal's take on July 19: Would that be the day the Ice Age ended?

proposed by IP something or other, no clear relation to date.

• 2 Kalki 20:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Though I'm not sure of the context, I find this rather humorous.
• 1 Zarbon 18:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

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