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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2000 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
09/01/00"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
09/02/00"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." - Elbert Hubbard
09/03/00"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers
09/04/00"Speed provides the one great modern pleasure." - Aldous Huxley
09/05/00"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast." - Peter Drucker
09/06/00"Our aspirations are our possibilities." - Samuel Johnson
09/07/00"Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to." - Ashleigh Brilliant
09/08/00"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." - Laurence J. Peter
09/09/00"The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often." - Laura Palmer
09/10/00"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, this is happiness." - J. B. Priestley
09/11/00"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost
09/12/00"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams; live the life you've imagined." - Thoreau
09/13/00"We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we'll go without them." - Marilyn Grey
09/14/00"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." - Alexander Woollcott
09/15/00"Time is a file that wears and makes no noise." - English proverb
09/16/00"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - Carl Jung
09/17/00"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being." - Lord Acton
09/18/00"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
09/19/00"Money is like sea-water: The more we drink the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame." - Schopenhauer
09/20/00"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life." - Charles Schwab
09/21/00"Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton
09/22/00"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." - Thucydides
09/23/00"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." - James Broughton
09/24/00"Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
09/25/00"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so." - Walter Lippmann
09/26/00"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte
09/27/00"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi
09/28/00"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost
09/29/00"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein
09/30/00"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." - William Blake


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