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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
02/01/09 | "I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82." - Dave Brubeck |
02/02/09 | "Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton |
02/03/09 | "One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca |
02/04/09 | "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie |
02/05/09 | "I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne from Essais (1580) chapter XVI, Of Glory. |
02/06/09 | "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry |
02/07/09 | "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iacocca |
02/08/09 | "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." - Sydney Smith |
02/09/09 | "A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." - Samuel Johnson |
02/10/09 | "Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect." - Arthur Schopenhauer |
02/11/09 | "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." - Norman Douglas |
02/12/09 | "Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition." - Abraham Lincoln |
02/13/09 | "Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill |
02/14/09 | "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm |
02/15/09 | "A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities." - Herman Melville |
02/16/09 | "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi |
02/17/09 | "The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin |
02/18/09 | "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle |
02/19/09 | "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan |
02/20/09 | "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London |
02/21/09 | "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig |
02/22/09 | "Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them." - Alvin Toffler |
02/23/09 | "Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." - Stephen King |
02/24/09 | "To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates |
02/25/09 | "It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it." - Robert Musil |
02/26/09 | "Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
02/27/09 | "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." - Will Rogers |
02/28/09 | "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." - Ogden Nash |
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