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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
04/01/13"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck
04/02/13"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words." - Samuel Adams
04/03/13"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde
04/04/13"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden Tower
04/05/13"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." - Robert Byrne
04/06/13"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice." - James Callaghan
04/07/13"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin
04/08/13"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom
04/09/13"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell
04/10/13"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell
04/11/13"No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' " - Danielle Berry
04/12/13"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
04/13/13"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
04/14/13"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
04/15/13"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs
04/16/13"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller
04/17/13"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue." - Alice Duer Miller
04/18/13"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." - Amelia Barr
04/19/13"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." - H. L. Mencken
04/20/13"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
04/21/13"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James Baldwin
04/22/13"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
04/23/13"If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet." - Proverbs 29:9
04/24/13"Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me." - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" - Aphorism Number 183
04/25/13"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Galileo Galilei
04/26/13"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." - Stephen Covey
04/27/13"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
04/28/13"In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
04/29/13"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire
04/30/13"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken


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