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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2008 Archive

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02/01/08"Paradise is here or nowhere: You must take your joy with you, or you will never find it." - Orison Swett Marden
02/02/08"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
02/03/08"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
02/04/08"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed
02/05/08"The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
02/06/08"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson
02/07/08"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein
02/08/08"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/09/08"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
02/10/08"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." - Groucho Marx
02/11/08"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves." - Elias Canetti
02/12/08"Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled." - Eric Hoffer
02/13/08"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble." - Carl Jung
02/14/08"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal
02/15/08"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
02/16/08"Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions." - Cicero
02/17/08"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." - Margaret Sanger
02/18/08"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe." - Oprah Winfrey
02/19/08"Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time." - Alvin Toffler
02/20/08"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." - Julius Caesar
02/21/08"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." - Alphonse De Lamartine
02/22/08"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." - Henry Ford
02/23/08"Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now does always last." - Abraham Cowley
02/24/08"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get." - William Feather
02/25/08"He who gives when he is asked has waited too long." - Seneca
02/26/08"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
02/27/08"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster." - Jonathan Swift
02/28/08"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink" - EE Cummings
02/29/08"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire


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