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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2008 Archive

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05/01/08"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
05/02/08"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
05/03/08"A very popular error - having the courage of one's convictions: Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions." - Friedrich Nietzsche
05/04/08"People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority." - Philip Chesterfield
05/05/08"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas Kempis
05/06/08"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
05/07/08"Scoundrels are always sociable." - Arthur Schopenhauer
05/08/08"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
05/09/08"Mediocrity is a hand-rail." - Charles Louis de Secondat
05/10/08"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." - Voltaire
05/11/08"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." - Suzanne Necker
05/12/08"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
05/13/08"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
05/14/08"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - E. B. White
05/15/08"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Sir Richard Francis Burton
05/16/08"We live in our desires rather than in our achievements." - George Moore
05/17/08"O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
05/18/08"I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything." - Vladimir Nabokov
05/19/08"It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies." - Bertrand Russell
05/20/08"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." - Margaret Mead
05/21/08"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." - David Hume
05/22/08"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
05/23/08"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
05/24/08"The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
05/25/08"Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/26/08"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean Paul Sartre
05/27/08"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka
05/28/08"Mythology is what we call someone else's religion." - Joseph Campbell
05/29/08"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
05/30/08"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
05/31/08"Never was anything great achieved without danger." - Niccolo Machiavelli


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