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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2011 Archive

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03/01/11"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." - Leo Tolstoy
03/02/11"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words." - Phillips Brooks
03/03/11"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you." - Claude M. Bristol
03/04/11"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?" - Judith Viorst
03/05/11"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
03/06/11"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment." - J. Donald Walters
03/07/11"In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill
03/08/11"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable." - Jean de La Fontaine
03/09/11"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles." - Bertrand Russell
03/10/11"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." - Kenneth Tynan
03/11/11"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton Jr.
03/12/11"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace." - Ben Hecht
03/13/11"Happiness is a function of accepting what is." - Werner Erhard
03/14/11"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway
03/15/11"However much I am at the mercy of the world I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end." - Albert Schweitzer
03/16/11"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
03/17/11"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/18/11"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." - Sir William Haley
03/19/11"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today." - Ernest Hemingway
03/20/11"Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people." - Heinrich Heine
03/21/11"Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure." - Rachel Naomi Remen
03/22/11"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." - Benjamin Franklin
03/23/11"Moral responsibility is not just a matter of avoiding harm to others; it also means helping people in need." - Michael Nedelsky
03/24/11"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." - Mark Twain
03/25/11"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." - Amy Tan
03/26/11"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact. Be not afraid to live." - William James
03/27/11"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Henry Haskins
03/28/11"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson
03/29/11"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." - T.S. Eliot
03/30/11"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
03/31/11"The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein


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