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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2008 Archive

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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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents."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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