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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2013 Archive

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10/01/13"I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself." - Jules Renard
10/02/13"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson
10/03/13"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it." - John Steinbeck
10/04/13"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
10/05/13"Several excuses are always less convincing than one." - Aldous Huxley
10/06/13"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things." - Albert Einstein
10/07/13"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10/08/13"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen
10/09/13"Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself." - William Blake
10/10/13"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx
10/11/13"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, - quieter, warmer." - Dag Hammarskjold
10/12/13"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid
10/13/13"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences." - W. Somerset Maugham
10/14/13"It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it." - Adlai Stevenson
10/15/13"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
10/16/13"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln
10/17/13"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
10/18/13"You can do anything, but not everything." - David Allen
10/19/13"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
10/20/13"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
10/21/13"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10/22/13"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
10/23/13"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
10/24/13"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Erz
10/25/13"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain
10/26/13"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
10/27/13"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
10/28/13"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." Thomas Szasz
10/29/13"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
10/30/13"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." - Clarence Darrow
10/31/13"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." - Anonymous / Charles Caleb Colton / Walter Winchell


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