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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2011 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
09/01/11"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian
09/02/11"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
09/03/11"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
09/04/11"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin
09/05/11"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
09/06/11"Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching." - Unknown Author
09/07/11"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not." - Virgil Garnett Thomson
09/08/11"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
09/09/11"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." - Clarence Darrow
09/10/11"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it." - Cullen Hightower
09/11/11"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
09/12/11"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
09/13/11"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
09/14/11"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
09/15/11"I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer." - Aryeh Frimer
09/16/11"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." - Bill Vaughan
09/17/11"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal
09/18/11"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously." - Charles F. Kettering
09/19/11"The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny." - Robespierre
09/20/11"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
09/21/11"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong
09/22/11"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." Thomas Szasz
09/23/11"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
09/24/11"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
09/25/11"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
09/26/11"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African proverb
09/27/11"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein
09/28/11"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
09/29/11"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
09/30/11"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon


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