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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2003 Archive

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04/02/03"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." - Albert Schweitzer
04/03/03"He that would be a leader must be a bridge." - Welsh proverb
04/04/03"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H.L. Mencken
04/05/03"There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust." - Sophocles
04/06/03"All a man can betray is his conscience." - Joseph Conrad
04/07/03"Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?" - John Stuart Mill
04/08/03"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." - Winston Churchill
04/09/03"The only people who grow old were born old to begin with." - Robert E. Sherwood
04/10/03"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." - Alexis de Tocqueville
04/11/03"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell
04/12/03"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet." - Chinese Proverb
04/13/03"A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us." - Franz Kafka
04/14/03"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin
04/15/03"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." - Theodore Rubin
04/16/03"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
04/17/03"Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
04/18/03"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
04/19/03"Have more than thou showest, / Speak less than thou knowest. " - William Shakespeare
04/20/03"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther
04/21/03"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - John Kenneth Galbraith
04/22/03"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo da Vinci
04/23/03"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it." - Norman Cousins
04/24/03"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity" - Samuel Johnson
04/25/03"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope
04/26/03"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." - Robert Leighton
04/27/03"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. " - G.C. Lichtenberg
04/28/03"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness." - Albert Einstein
04/29/03"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward." - Arthur Koestler
04/30/03"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi


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