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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2017 Archive

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07/01/17"Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others." - Kahlil Gibran
07/02/17"A child miseducated is a child lost." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
07/03/17"Courage without conscience is a wild beast." - Robert Green Ingersoll
07/04/17"It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." - Robert Southey
07/05/17"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching." - John Wooden
07/06/17"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil." - Hippocrates
07/07/17"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Henry Haskins
07/08/17"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
07/09/17"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn." - John Dryden
07/10/17"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell
07/11/17"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury
07/12/17"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind." - John Neal
07/13/17"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." - Albert Einstein
07/14/17"The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
07/15/17"The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly." - Charles Reznikoff
07/16/17"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton
07/17/17"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
07/18/17"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage
07/19/17"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
07/20/17"When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." - Robert M. Pirsig
07/21/17"America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation." - King Baudouin of Belgium
07/22/17"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."- Leo Tolstoy
07/23/17"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?" - David M. Bader
07/24/17"One conscious breath in and out is a meditation." - Eckhart Tolle
07/25/17"He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius
07/26/17"Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet." - Swami Vivekananda
07/27/17"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' " - H.L. Mencken
07/28/17"Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" - Laurence J. Peter
07/29/17"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." - Jeremy Irons
07/30/17"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." - Walter Lippmann
07/31/17"Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges." - Orrin Woodward


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