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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2012 Archive

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03/01/12"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." - William Wordsworth
03/02/12"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive." - Oscar Wilde
03/03/12"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
03/04/12"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." - Shana Alexander
03/05/12"Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse." - Arnold J. Toynbee
03/06/12"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier
03/07/12"I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world - constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being, but it is the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating." - Lorraine Hansberry
03/08/12"Dare to be yourself." - Andre Gide
03/09/12"The only real training for leadership is leadership." - Antony Jay
03/10/12"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror." - Carlos Fuentes
03/11/12"Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure." - Jane Brody
03/12/12"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton
03/13/12"A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity." - Alexander Smith
03/14/12"Love demands infinitely less than friendship." - George Jean Nathan
03/15/12"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." - Albert Einstein
03/16/12"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." - William Blake
03/17/12"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill
03/18/12"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Samuel Johnson
03/19/12"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." - William Wordsworth
03/20/12"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" - Mark Twain
03/21/12"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson
03/22/12"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." - Thomas Elliot
03/23/12"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them." - Benjamin Disraeli
03/24/12"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination." - John Haldane
03/25/12"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid
03/26/12"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein
03/27/12"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
03/28/12"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." - William Hutton
03/29/12"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." - George Sand
03/30/12"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." - Robert Fritz
03/31/12"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." - Victor Borge


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