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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2010 Archive

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10/01/10"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." - Robert A. Heinlein
10/02/10"Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else." - Audrey Beth Stein
10/03/10"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology." - John Tudor
10/04/10"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." - Albert Einstein
10/05/10"Technology ... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
10/06/10"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." - Friedrich Nietzsche
10/07/10"There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life." - Unknown
10/08/10"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
10/09/10"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
10/10/10"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan
10/11/10"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
10/12/10"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
10/13/10"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson
10/14/10"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
10/15/10"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin
10/16/10"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with." - Anonymous
10/17/10"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors." - Eugene O'Neil
10/18/10"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." - Edgar Watson Howe
10/19/10"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." - Friedrich Nietzsche
10/20/10"Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills." - William Hazlitt
10/21/10"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right." - Helen Keller
10/22/10"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts." - Herbert Spencer
10/23/10"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
10/24/10"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton
10/25/10"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
10/26/10"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." - John Adams
10/27/10"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire
10/28/10"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
10/29/10"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." - Franklin Roosevelt
10/30/10"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato
10/31/10"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein


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