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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2009 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/09"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein
08/02/09"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman
08/03/09"There is always room at the top - after the investigation." - Oliver Herford
08/04/09"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." - Henry Miller
08/05/09"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion
08/06/09"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats
08/07/09"To find yourself, think for yourself. " - Socrates
08/08/09"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." - Washington Irving
08/09/09"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." - Henri Frederic Amiel
08/10/09"Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve." - George Santayana
08/11/09"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler
08/12/09"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language." - Joyce Carol Oates
08/13/09"A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for." - John Shedd
08/14/09"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - John Milton
08/15/09"In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst." - Oscar Wilde
08/16/09"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte
08/17/09"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky
08/18/09"O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - William Shakespeare
08/19/09"Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents." - Carl Gustav Jung
08/20/09"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/21/09"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - Neil Postman
08/22/09"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want." - Italian Proverb
08/23/09"Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom." - George Smith Patton, Jr.
08/24/09"Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack." - John Shedd
08/25/09"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
08/26/09"I have not been afraid of excess. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - William Somerset Maugham
08/27/09"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." - William Shakespeare
08/28/09"The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed." - Helen Keller
08/29/09"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
08/30/09"It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same." - Isadora Duncan
08/31/09"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein


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