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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2007 Archive

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09/01/07"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that .... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there." - Monica Baldwin
09/02/07"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses." - Hannah Arendt
09/03/07"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life." - Marc Chagall
09/04/07"To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed." - Democritus of Abdera
09/05/07"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
09/06/07"Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness." - David Augsburger
09/07/07"Happiness in the older years of life, like happiness in every year of life, is a matter of choice - your choice for yourself." - Harold Azine
09/08/07"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard
09/09/07"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." - James Baldwin
09/10/07"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you." - Robert Anthony
09/11/07"Nostalgia is a seductive liar." - George Ball
09/12/07"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is." - Christiaan N. Barnard
09/13/07"Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back." - John Barth
09/14/07"Conceit is God's gift to little men." - Bruce Barton
09/15/07"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore." - Cecil Beaton
09/16/07"Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has shaken me." - Friedrich Nietzsche
09/17/07"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people." - Max Beerbohm
09/18/07"Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions." - Eric Bentley
09/19/07"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our qualities." - Bernard Berenson
09/20/07"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." - John Berger
09/21/07"What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it." - Stephen Birmingham
09/22/07"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." - Jim Bishop
09/23/07"Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too." - Lawrence Bixby
09/24/07"The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate." - Ronald Blythe
09/25/07"Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back." - Geoffrey Bocca
09/26/07"Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived." - Sissela Bok
09/27/07"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
09/28/07"Humor [is] something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." - Victor Borge
09/29/07"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." - Hal Borland
09/30/07"The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine." - Rabbi Eugene B Borowitz


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