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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2008 Archive

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03/01/08"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." - Thomas Fuller
03/02/08"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all." - Gerald W. Johnson
03/03/08"People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it." - John Jay Chapman
03/04/08"If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power." - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
03/05/08"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." - George Bernard Shaw
03/06/08"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground." - Marcel Proust
03/07/08"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do." - Virginia Woolf
03/08/08"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." - Bertrand Russell
03/09/08"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." - William Penn
03/10/08"Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." - Thomas Dekker
03/11/08"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." - Calvin Coolidge
03/12/08"Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it." - B. W. M. Young
03/13/08"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive." - John W. Gardner
03/14/08"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends." - Jacques Delille
03/15/08"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny." - Tony Robbins
03/16/08"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority." - Alfred Adler
03/17/08"It is my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it." - Sean O'Casey
03/18/08"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." - William Dean Howells
03/19/08"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." - John Kenneth Galbraith
03/20/08"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger." - Francis Quarles
03/21/08"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change." - Frank Lloyd Wright
03/22/08"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." - Germaine Greer
03/23/08"If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?" - Sherwood Anderson
03/24/08"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz
03/25/08"It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious." - Zeno of Citium
03/26/08"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel." - Heywood Broun
03/27/08"Our power is in our ability to decide." - R. Buckminster Fuller
03/28/08"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time." - Norman Cousins
03/29/08"The course of true love never did run smooth."
03/30/08"Flowers grow out of dark moments." - Corita Kent
03/31/08"All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today." - Phoebe Cary


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