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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2010 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
04/01/10"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." - Norman Douglas
04/02/10"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates
04/03/10"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." - Walt Whitman
04/04/10"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell
04/05/10"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
04/06/10"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts." - Jean Vanier
04/07/10"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others." - Buddha
04/08/10"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
04/09/10"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
04/10/10"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert A. Heinlein
04/11/10"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is." - Joseph Addison
04/12/10"It is better to live rich than to die rich." - Samuel Johnson
04/13/10"The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across." - Marian C. Diamond
04/14/10"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman
04/15/10"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence." - Alfred Billings Street
04/16/10"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - Omar Bradley
04/17/10"Man and Woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other." - Isak Dinesen
04/18/10"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
04/19/10"Tragic sins become moral failures only if we should have known better from the outset." - Jared Diamond
04/20/10"The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted with what goes on outside his skull." - Dr. Eric Berne
04/21/10"As poetic as it might seem to think so, nothing good comes of victimization." - Robert Sabbag
04/22/10"We don't understand life any better at 40 than at 20, but we know it and admit it." - Jules Renard
04/23/10"We have to believe in free will. We have no choice." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
04/24/10"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." - Nicholas Murray Butler
04/25/10"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem
04/26/10"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock
04/27/10"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can't be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." - Adam Smith
04/28/10"Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost." - Robert Southey
04/29/10"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling
04/30/10"Whatever we build in the imagination will accomplish itself in the circumstance of our lives." - William Butler Yeats


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