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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2000 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/00"Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child
08/02/00"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, / And all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry W. Longfellow
08/03/00"Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring." - Herman Melville
08/04/00"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
08/05/00"Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama
08/06/00"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur." - Alvin Toffler
08/07/00"Large streams from little fountains flow, / Tall oaks from little acorns grow." - David Everett
08/08/00"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life." - Charles Scribner, Jr.
08/09/00"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred Witte Struven
08/10/00"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." - Virginia Woolf
08/11/00"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?" - Arthur Miller
08/12/00"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." - Dr. Seuss
08/13/00"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
08/14/00"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation." - Eudora Welty
08/15/00"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." - Thomas Carlyle
08/16/00"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
08/17/00"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
08/18/00"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill
08/19/00"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/20/00"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin
08/21/00"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." - W. H. Auden
08/22/00"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire
08/23/00"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
08/24/00"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness." - Norman O. Brown
08/25/00"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
08/26/00"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." - Milton Friedman
08/27/00"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott
08/28/00"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." - John Erksine
08/29/00"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." - James Fenimore Cooper
08/30/00"Every exit is an entry somewhere." - Tom Stoppard
08/31/00"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase." - John Balguy


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