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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2006 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/06"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." - Dwight David Eisenhower
05/02/06"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw
05/03/06"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Bolton
05/04/06"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille
05/05/06"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." - Pablo Picasso
05/06/06"A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr." - Friedrich Nietzsche
05/07/06"The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg
05/08/06"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
05/09/06"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
05/10/06"Anger is a brief lunacy." - Horace
05/11/06"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
05/12/06"The wise man must be wise before, not after." - Epicharmus
05/13/06"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot
05/14/06" 'M' is for the million things she gave me, 'O' means only that she's growing old, 'T' is for the tears were shed to save me, 'H' is for her heart of purest gold; 'E' is for her eyes, with love-light shining, 'R' means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell MOTHER, A word that means the world to me." - Howard Johnson
05/15/06"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." - Bertrand Russell
05/16/06"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason." - Ashley Montagu
05/17/06"All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant." - Henry David Thoreau
05/18/06"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie
05/19/06"Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." - Mark Twain
05/20/06"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." - Shana Alexander
05/21/06"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - William Somerset Maugham
05/22/06"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." - Henry Ward Beecher
05/23/06"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus
05/24/06"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James Michener
05/25/06"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
05/26/06"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." - Yann Martel
05/27/06"For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that." - Carl Sagan
05/28/06"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." - Christopher Morley
05/29/06"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." - Theodor Adorno
05/30/06"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence." - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
05/31/06"They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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