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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2005 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
06/01/05"Happiness is a state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand
06/02/05"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato
06/03/05"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson
06/04/05"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
06/05/05"Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself." - Emma Carleton
06/06/05"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour
06/07/05"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson
06/08/05"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation." - Margaret Mead
06/09/05"The pupil, who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." - John Stuart Mill
06/10/05"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography." - Federico Fellini
06/11/05"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." - Hyman G. Rickover
06/12/05"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence." - Alice Walker
06/13/05"I can, therefore I am." - Simone Weil
06/14/05"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit." - George Santayana
06/15/05"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James
06/16/05"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds
06/17/05"Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable." - Nigerian saying
06/18/05"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine." - Henry Ward Beecher
06/19/05"Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Byron
06/20/05"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
06/21/05"A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann
06/22/05"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Denis Diderot
06/23/05"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre
06/24/05"I dream, therefore I exist." - J. August Strindberg
06/25/05"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling
06/26/05"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine." - Hosea Ballou
06/27/05"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
06/28/05"Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
06/29/05"For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/30/05"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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