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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2012 Archive

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08/01/12"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin
08/02/12"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
08/03/12"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake
08/04/12"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." - Arthur Helps
08/05/12"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - President Harry S. Truman
08/06/12"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
08/07/12"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
08/08/12"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
08/09/12"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
08/10/12"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow
08/11/12"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings
08/12/12"If there is no knowledge, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no knowledge." - The Talmud
08/13/12"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson
08/14/12"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
08/15/12"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
08/16/12"The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny." - Roberspierre
08/17/12"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson
08/18/12"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
08/19/12"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
08/20/12"The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
08/21/12"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." - Horace
08/22/12"We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things." - Herb Kelleher
08/23/12"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." - Charles Schwab
08/24/12"When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves'." - Lao Tzu
08/25/12"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
08/26/12"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life." - Booker T. Washington
08/27/12"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes
08/28/12"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes
08/29/12"Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis R. Whitney
08/30/12"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
08/31/12"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus


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