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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2009 Archive

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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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