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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
07/01/08 | "Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." - Hermann Hesse |
07/02/08 | "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell |
07/03/08 | "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears." - Rudyard Kipling |
07/04/08 | "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin |
07/05/08 | "To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." - Charles Horton Cooley from Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p.219. |
07/06/08 | "What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
07/07/08 | "To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents." - Barbara Tuchman |
07/08/08 | "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." - Jules Renard |
07/09/08 | "As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest." - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne |
07/10/08 | "Diogenes struck the father when the son swore." - Robert Burton |
07/11/08 | "To think is to say no." - Emile Chartier |
07/12/08 | "People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority." - Philip Chesterfield |
07/13/08 | "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me." - Mohandas K. Gandhi |
07/14/08 | "One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs |
07/15/08 | "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Arthur Rubinstein |
07/16/08 | "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices --- just recognize them." - Edward R. Murrow |
07/17/08 | "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Alva Edison |
07/18/08 | "Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson |
07/19/08 | "I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten |
07/20/08 | "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein |
07/21/08 | "You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." - Phaedrus |
07/22/08 | "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
07/23/08 | "It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation." - Roberto Benigni |
07/24/08 | "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." - Margaret Atwood |
07/25/08 | "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." - Rachel Carson |
07/26/08 | "He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius." - William Gillmore Simms |
07/27/08 | "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard |
07/28/08 | "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." - W. H. Auden |
07/29/08 | "There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." - Philip Dormer Stanhope |
07/30/08 | "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki |
07/31/08 | "Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Andre Maurois |
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