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Thought of the Day
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These twelve Thought-of-the-Day entries were randomly selected from our archive for your enjoyment. Use the fields below to search for a specific entry or date.

December 21, 2023
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
December 12, 2020
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." - Rumi
June 14, 2004
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." - Josh Billings
April 06, 2011
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling
November 04, 2002
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato
August 27, 2004
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B Anthony
May 13, 2007
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." - Mario Cuomo
January 11, 2009
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
September 27, 2013
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt
August 25, 2007
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men." - Mortimer Adler
October 14, 2004
"Live in the active voice, rather than in the passive. Think more about what you make happen than what is happening to you." - William De Witt Hyde
March 15, 2004
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver





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