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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
03/01/13"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." - Mohandas Gandhi
03/02/13"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
03/03/13" People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz from The Second Sin (1973) p49.
03/04/13"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher
03/05/13"Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." - Milton Friedman
03/06/13"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
03/07/13"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller
03/08/13"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
03/09/13"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher
03/10/13"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne
03/11/13"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." - Blaise Pascal
03/12/13"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
03/13/13"It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed." - Jean Rostand
03/14/13"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia." - Alexis Carrel
03/15/13"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo
03/16/13"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." - Edmund Burke
03/17/13"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
03/18/13"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform." - Susan B. Anthony
03/19/13"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A. Milne
03/20/13"Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03/21/13"A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - - Winston Churchill
03/22/13"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
03/23/13"Genius is talent set on fire by courage." - Henry van Dyke
03/24/13"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte
03/25/13"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice." - Ernest Hemingway
03/26/13"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." - Antony Jay
03/27/13"Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - George Burns
03/28/13"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves." - Aldous Huxley
03/29/13"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
03/30/13"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which many men throw away." - Charles Caleb Colton
03/31/13"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher


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