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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2012 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/12"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
01/02/12"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
01/03/12"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
01/04/12"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." - Grace Paley
01/05/12"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." - Leo Tolstoy
01/06/12"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." - Vernon Howard
01/07/12"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his teacher." - Leonardo Da Vinci
01/08/12"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
01/09/12"Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
01/10/12"The unfed mind devours itself." - Gore Vidal
01/11/12"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russell
01/12/12"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
01/13/12"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx
01/14/12"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger
01/15/12"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." - Lucille Ball
01/16/12"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
01/17/12"The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character." - Sigmund Freud
01/18/12"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
01/19/12"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
01/20/12"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes
01/21/12"Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware." - Anne Lamott
01/22/12"If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out." - Rabindranath Tagore
01/23/12"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert
01/24/12"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
01/25/12"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
01/26/12"The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember," - Mark Twain
01/27/12"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz
01/28/12"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
01/29/12"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy
01/30/12"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." - Aung San Suu Kyi
01/31/12"We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan


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