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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2010 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/10"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
05/02/10"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov
05/03/10"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." - Edgar Watson Howe
05/04/10"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent
05/05/10"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein
05/06/10"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein
05/07/10"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller
05/08/10"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E. B. White
05/09/10"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau
05/10/10"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." - Woodrow Wilson
05/11/10"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
05/12/10"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." - William James
05/13/10"Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise." - Alan Watts
05/14/10"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." - John le Carre
05/15/10"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened." - Ernest Hemingway
05/16/10"Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human." - David Starkey
05/17/10"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." - Jerry Garcia
05/18/10"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein
05/19/10"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." - Aldous Huxley
05/20/10"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." - Andre Gide
05/21/10"There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own." - Elizabeth Elton Smith
05/22/10"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
05/23/10"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." - George Bernard Shaw
05/24/10"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
05/25/10"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin
05/26/10"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
05/27/10"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
05/28/10"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." - Harvey S. Firestone
05/29/10"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - Carl Jung
05/30/10"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me." - Lee Greenwood
05/31/10"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth


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