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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
05/01/13"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future." - John Maynard Keynes
05/02/13"Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop." - Alfred Polgar
05/03/13"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we seek too late the one that is open." - Alexander Graham Bell
05/04/13"Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one." - Charles de Gaulle
05/05/13"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
05/06/13"Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury
05/07/13"The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
05/08/13"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell
05/09/13"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins
05/10/13"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
05/11/13"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless." - Dorothy L. Sayers
05/12/13"Have the courage to act instead of react." - Earlene Larson Jenks
05/13/13"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know." - Michel de Montaigne
05/14/13"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells
05/15/13"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/16/13"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team." - Benjamin F. Fairless
05/17/13"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Cornelius Van Horne
05/18/13"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
05/19/13"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones, which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay
05/20/13"Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true." - Frank Tyger
05/21/13"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/22/13"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
05/23/13"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." - William Shakespeare
05/24/13"It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods." - Margaret Fuller
05/25/13"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious." - Albert Einstein
05/26/13"The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it." - H. G. Wells
05/27/13"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars." - John M. McHugh
05/28/13"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." - Charles Buxton
05/29/13"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way." - E.L. Doctorow
05/30/13"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
05/31/13"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." - William Arthur Ward


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