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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2010 Archive

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02/01/10"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind." - John Neal
02/02/10"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker
02/03/10"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches." - Cicero
02/04/10"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." - John Jay Chapman
02/05/10"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." - George Santayana
02/06/10"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
02/07/10"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." - Erich Fromm
02/08/10"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein
02/09/10"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." - Tony Robbins
02/10/10"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence." - James Brander Matthews
02/11/10"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell
02/12/10"They are able because they think they are able." - Virgil
02/13/10"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka
02/14/10"I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you." - Author Unknown
02/15/10"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - President George Washington
02/16/10"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
02/17/10"I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself." - Charles Lamb
02/18/10"The most valuable of all talents, that of never using two words where one will do." - Thomas Jefferson
02/19/10"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know." - Bertrand Russell
02/20/10"There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character." - H.L. Mencken
02/21/10"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within." - Will Durant
02/22/10"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/23/10"You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are." - Sylvia Ashton-Warner
02/24/10"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
02/25/10"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists." - Harry Stack Sullivan
02/26/10"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
02/27/10"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise." - Robert Frost
02/28/10"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes


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