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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2001 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/01"Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid." - Albert Schweitzer
08/02/01"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
08/03/01"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain
08/04/01"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers
08/05/01"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
08/06/01"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell
08/07/01"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau
08/08/01"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
08/09/01"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." - Leonardo da Vinci
08/10/01"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter." - Chinese proverb
08/11/01"When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you." - Samuel Goldwyn
08/12/01"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/13/01"A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure." - Unknown
08/14/01"He who has begun is half done." - Quintus Horatius Flaccus
08/15/01"There are two ways of spreading light... to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
08/16/01"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
08/17/01"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." - Abba Eban
08/18/01"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson
08/19/01"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao-Tzu
08/20/01"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
08/21/01"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
08/22/01"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs (1845-1912)
08/23/01"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
08/24/01"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact." - George Eliot
08/25/01"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
08/26/01"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin
08/27/01"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can. All of them make me laugh. " - W.H. Auden
08/28/01"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
08/29/01"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe
08/30/01"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire
08/31/01"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it." - Dale Carnegie


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