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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2007 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
07/01/07"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
07/03/07"The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man." - American Library Association
07/04/07"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
07/05/07"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
07/06/07"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner
07/07/07"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." - Clarence Shepard Day
07/08/07"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was." - Ernest Hemingway
07/09/07"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann
07/10/07"In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared." - Louis Pasteur
07/11/07"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." - Lucius Cary
07/12/07"I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology: the deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated." - William James
07/13/07"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." - Herbert Butterfield
07/14/07"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
07/15/07"On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole." - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
07/16/07"The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually." - Woodrow Wilson
07/17/07"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler
07/18/07"A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." - Author unknown
07/19/07"It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation." - Friedrich Nietzsche
07/20/07"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory." - Benjamin Disraeli
07/21/07"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value." - Theodore Roosevelt
07/22/07"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." - Thomas Jefferson
07/23/07"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter F. Drucker
07/24/07"As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government." - Abraham Lincoln
07/25/07"That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves." - Chester William Nimitz
07/26/07"It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." - Christopher Society
07/27/07"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can." - John Wesley
07/28/07"The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg
07/29/07"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' " - George Bernard Shaw
07/30/07"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
07/31/07"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves." - Woodrow Wilson


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