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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2000 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/00"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." - Aldous Huxley
05/02/00"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/03/00"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Jim Horning
05/04/00"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alec Bourne
05/05/00"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi
05/06/00"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." - Dorothy Parker
05/07/00"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." - Robert Graves
05/08/00"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." Thomas Szasz
05/09/00"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
05/10/00"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - P.J. O'Rourke
05/11/00"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
05/12/00"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - Anon.
05/13/00"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
05/14/00"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." - H. L. Mencken
05/15/00"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." - Charles Austin Beard, historian
05/16/00"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." - William Hazlitt
05/17/00"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis
05/18/00"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus
05/19/00"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it." - George Bernard Shaw
05/20/00"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." - Walt West
05/21/00"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."- Leo Tolstoy
05/22/00"Don't do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might." - Hugh Young
05/23/00"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them." - Adlai Stevenson
05/24/00"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
05/25/00"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary
05/26/00"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." - Wendell Johnson
05/27/00"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." - Charles Steinmetz
05/28/00"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice." - Doug Larson
05/29/00"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
05/30/00"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge
05/31/00"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth


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