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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2006 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/06"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam." - Charles Lamb
01/02/06"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov
01/03/06"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson
01/04/06"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin
01/05/06"In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared." - Louis Pasteur
01/06/06"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell
01/07/06"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
01/08/06"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
01/09/06"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
01/10/06"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir
01/11/06"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling
01/12/06"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
01/14/06"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Phil Condit
01/15/06"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke
01/16/06"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
01/17/06"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean De La Bruyere
01/18/06"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
01/19/06"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
01/20/06"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
01/21/06"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
01/22/06"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority." - Lord Acton
01/23/06"When twenty years ago a vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard, I thought and still think that fear was translated into doctrines that had no proper place in the Constitution or the common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
01/24/06"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." - Andrew Carnegie
01/26/06"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ... the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein
01/27/06"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes
01/28/06"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." - Voltaire
01/29/06"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley
01/30/06"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James A. Michener
01/31/06"The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts." - Baruch Spinoza


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