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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2005 Archive

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07/01/05"If people behaved in the way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets." - Tennessee William
07/02/05"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited." - Margaret Mead
07/03/05"On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole." - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
07/04/05"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
07/05/05"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
07/06/05"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." - Thomas Jefferson
07/07/05"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life." - Christopher Morley
07/08/05"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." - David C McCullough
07/09/05"Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity." - L.A. Safian
07/10/05"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee." - F. Lee Bailey
07/11/05"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." - W. Somerset Maugham
07/12/05"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." - Johann Paul Richter
07/13/05"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." - Edmund Burke
07/14/05"Those who make the worst use of their time most complain about its shortness." - Jean de la Bruyere
07/15/05"People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell
07/16/05"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." - Charles Darwin
07/17/05"It [television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." - T. S. Eliot
07/18/05"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
07/19/05"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." - Ludwig Erhard
07/20/05"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." - E. Merrill Root
07/21/05"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment." - Herbert Marcuse
07/22/05"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay." - Theodore Roosevelt
07/23/05"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
07/24/05"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." - William Blake
07/25/05"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." - William James
07/26/05"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success." - William J. H. Boetcker
07/27/05"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." - John MacNaughton
07/28/05"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
07/29/05"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard
07/30/05"A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood." - Chinese Proverb
07/31/05"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." - Herbert Butterfield


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