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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2012 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
07/01/12"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner
07/02/12"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers
07/03/12"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan
07/04/12"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis
07/05/12"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." - Dorothy Height
07/06/12"Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins." - Edith Wharton
07/07/12"The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable." - David Halberstam
07/08/12"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi
07/09/12"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehat
07/10/12"Technology, the knack of so arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
07/11/12"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." - Bertrand Russell
07/12/12"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain
07/13/12"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt
07/14/12"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers
07/15/12"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
07/16/12"Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good." - W. H. Auden
07/17/12"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
07/18/12"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
07/19/12"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
07/20/12"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France
07/21/12"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten'. " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
07/22/12"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." - Tenzin Gyatso
07/23/12"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." - Ken Kesey
07/24/12"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
07/25/12"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
07/26/12"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning." - Agnes Repplier
07/27/12"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anais Nin
07/28/12"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking
07/29/12"A smiling face is half the meal." - Latvian proverb
07/30/12"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses." - Lowell Thomas
07/31/12"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." - L. Frank Baum


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