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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2011 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/11"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
08/02/11"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe
08/03/11"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde
08/04/11"Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor." - Seneca
08/05/11"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency." - John Maynard Keynes
08/06/11"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." - Patrick Young
08/07/11"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence." - Samuel Johnson
08/08/11"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves." - Eric Hoffer
08/09/11"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
08/10/11"Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul." - Horace
08/11/11"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
08/12/11"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
08/13/11"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." - Benjamin Franklin
08/14/11"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of moral crisis, do nothing." - Dante Alighieri
08/15/11"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers
08/16/11"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke
08/17/11"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte
08/18/11"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." - John Wooden
08/19/11"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." - Ben Stein
08/20/11"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
08/21/11"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
08/22/11"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies." - Aristotle
08/23/11"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
08/24/11"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking
08/25/11"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
08/26/11"The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt
08/27/11"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
08/28/11"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean." - Lin-Chi
08/29/11"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A. A. Milne
08/30/11"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." - Abraham Maslow
08/31/11"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle


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