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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2008 Archive

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09/01/08"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it." - Frantois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
09/02/08"It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." - H. L. Mencken
09/03/08"The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
09/04/08"The most important political office is that of the private citizen." - Louis Brandeis
09/05/08"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste." - Ernest Hemingway
09/06/08"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober." - William Butler Yeats
09/07/08"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." - William Somerset Maugham
09/08/08"The cemetery is filled with indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle
09/09/08"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
09/10/08"Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it." - Sophocles
09/11/08"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." - Elie Wiesel
09/12/08"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." - Walt Whitman
09/13/08"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
09/14/08"Work is love made visible." - Khalil Gibran from The Prophet (1923) 'On Work'
09/15/08"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." - Epictetus
09/16/08"No wind favors he who has no destined port." - Montaigne
09/17/08"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill from Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6499 (1974).
09/18/08"Do first things first, and second things not at all." - Peter Drucker
09/19/08"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells
09/20/08"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
09/21/08"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." - Adlai E. Stevenson
09/22/08"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech." - Soren Kierkegaard
09/23/08"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes
09/24/08"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells
09/25/08"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin
09/26/08"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." - Umberto Eco
09/27/08"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
09/28/08"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
09/29/08"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman
09/30/08"Our memories are card indexes - consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control." - Cyril Connolly


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