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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2000 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
04/01/00"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
04/02/00"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato
04/03/00"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." - Arnold Toynbee
04/04/00"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." - Epictetus
04/05/00"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." - Colin Powell
04/06/00"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable." - Eric Hoffer
04/07/00"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." - Benjamin Franklin
04/08/00"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
04/09/00"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." - Kurt Vonnegut
04/10/00"For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news." - Gloria Borger
04/11/00"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it." - Sir Laurence Olivier
04/12/00"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
04/13/00"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
04/14/00"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
04/15/00"If it is to be, it is up to me." - Anon
04/16/00"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." - Swedish Proverb
04/17/00"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." - Ken Keys
04/18/00"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." - George Bernard Shaw
04/19/00"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." - Mark Twain
04/20/00"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein
04/21/00"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876
04/22/00"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
04/23/00"Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers." - James Thurber
04/24/00"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
04/25/00"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius." - George Bernard Shaw
04/26/00"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
04/27/00"I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
04/28/00"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford
04/29/00"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi
04/30/00"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso


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