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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2007 Archive

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05/01/07"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand." - Henry James
05/02/07"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil." - Elie Wiesel
05/03/07"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you." - Robert Anthony
05/04/07"Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
05/05/07"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel." - Renata Adler
05/06/07"It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died." - William Faulkner
05/07/07"To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing." - Elizabeth Bibesco
05/08/07"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." - George Orwell
05/09/07"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them." - Benjamin Jowett
05/10/07"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz
05/11/07"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate." - Barnett Brickner
05/12/07"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." - Publius Syrus
05/13/07"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." - Mario Cuomo
05/14/07"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life." - John Stuart Mill
05/15/07"Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice." - Rudyard Kipling
05/16/07"Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request." - Sir Arthur Helps
05/17/07"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard
05/18/07"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life." - Charles Scribner Jr.
05/19/07"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington
05/20/07"Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world." - Plutarch
05/21/07"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy
05/22/07"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means." - Georges Bernanos
05/23/07"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate." - Germaine Greer
05/24/07"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior." - Logan Pearsall Smith
05/25/07"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. 'Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.' " - Susan B. Anthony
05/26/07"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson
05/27/07"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F. Kennedy
05/28/07"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth
05/29/07"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer
05/30/07"He who would travel happily must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
05/31/07"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins


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