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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2002 Archive

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01/01/02"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris
01/02/02"Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power." - James Madison
01/03/02"Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted." - Andrew Jackson
01/04/02"Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
01/05/02"Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness." - Brian Tracy
01/06/02"Things may come to those who wait ... but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
01/07/02"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall ... Freedom and slavery are mental states." - Mohandas Gandhi
01/08/02"To keep your marriage brimming, / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you're wrong, admit it; / Whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash
01/09/02"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
01/10/02"Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Brown
01/11/02"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson
01/12/02"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
01/13/02"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman
01/14/02"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." - Alexander Hamilton
01/15/02"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
01/16/02"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe
01/17/02"Agitate the young against the old. Prevail if possible without armed conflict. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to defeat the armies of your enemies without ever having to fight them." - Sun Tzu
01/18/02"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of." - Confucius
01/19/02"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." - Henry Ford
01/20/02"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
01/21/02"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington
01/22/02"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson
01/23/02"Function in disaster. Finish in style." - Lucy Madeira
01/24/02"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." - Rollo May
01/25/02"You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
01/26/02"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
01/27/02"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden
01/28/02"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
01/29/02"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
01/30/02"As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our union has never been stronger." - George Walker Bush
01/31/02"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm
01/01/02"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." - Charles Lamb


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