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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2013 Archive

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02/01/13"When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did 10 times more work." - George Bernard Shaw
02/02/13"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover
02/03/13"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
02/04/13"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown
02/05/13"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
02/06/13"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit." - Andrew Carnegie
02/07/13"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - H.L. Mencken
02/08/13"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau
02/09/13"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts." - Harold Macmillan
02/10/13"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
02/11/13"The art of happiness lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
02/12/13"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
02/13/13"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself." - Thomas Fuller
02/14/13"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" - Thomas Hood
02/15/13"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
02/16/13"To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands." - Anne Sophie Swetchine
02/17/13"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
02/18/13"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
02/19/13"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman
02/20/13"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience." - May Sarton
02/21/13"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens
02/22/13"Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation." - Allen Ginsberg
02/23/13"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious." - B.C. Forbes
02/24/13"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it." - Frantois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
02/25/13"As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice." - Margot Bennett
02/26/13"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
02/27/13"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality." - Walter Gropius
02/28/13"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." - Desiderius Erasmus


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