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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2017 Archive

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05/01/17"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
05/02/17"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill
05/03/17"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be." - Studs Terkel
05/04/17"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
05/05/17"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." - Bertrand Russell
05/06/17"While there's life, there's hope." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
05/07/17"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." - Alan Kay
05/08/17"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
05/09/17"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." - Socrates
05/10/17"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." - Honore de Balzac
05/11/17"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
05/12/17"What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" - Theodore Roethke
05/13/17"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Henry Haskins
05/14/17"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool." - Aleksandr Pushkin
05/15/17"We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right." - William Randolph Hearst
05/16/17"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world, I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect." - Nikki Giovanni
05/17/17"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right." - Henry Ford
05/18/17"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
05/19/17"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
05/20/17"It's easy to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it is leadership to be in the wrong place at the right time." - Alison Thompson
05/21/17"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. " - Abraham Lincoln
05/22/17"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?" - Marcus Tullius Cicero
05/23/17"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - Franklin Jones
05/24/17"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." - Georg Wilhelm
05/25/17"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" - Benjamin Disraeli
05/26/17"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John Maxwell
05/27/17"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt,sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth." - William W. Purkey
05/28/17"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero
05/29/17"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
05/30/17"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
05/31/17"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide


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