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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2001 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
09/01/01"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General Patton
09/02/01"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings." - Henri Frederic Amiel
09/03/01"Prejudice is a raft onto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety." - Ben Hecht
09/04/01"To withhold news is to play God." - John Hess
09/05/01"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Basil King
09/06/01"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
09/07/01"Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference." - Charles Nalin
09/08/01"Behind fear is powerlessness." - Gary Zukav
09/09/01"We must travel in the direction of our fear." - John Berryman
09/10/01"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." - Gordon Parks
09/11/01"The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one." - John Ruskin
09/12/01"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" - John Greenleaf Whittier
09/13/01"The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world... This battle will take time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win." - George Walker Bush
09/14/01"We have just seen the first war of the 21st century." - George Walker Bush
09/15/01"If whoever did this is so mighty, why is he hiding?" - Poster at World Trade Center
09/16/01"We will do whatever it takes to smoke them out of their holes. We'll get them running and we'll bring them to justice." - George Walker Bush
09/17/01"Iacta Alea Est: The Die is Cast." - Julius Caesar
09/18/01"This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together." - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
09/19/01"The only whole heart is a broken one." - Rabbi Menachem Mendel
09/20/01"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." - Geoffrey F. Abert
09/21/01"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make ... either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." - George Walker Bush
09/22/01"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather
09/23/01"Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
09/24/01"He who flees the trial confesses his guilt." - Publius Syrus
09/25/01"Beware the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden
09/26/01"Is is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
09/27/01"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson
09/28/01"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
09/29/01"Security isn't anything more than superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
09/30/01"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James


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