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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2017 Archive

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08/01/17"I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein, "Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms". Get this book on Amazon.com: http://a.co/9qtbMkn
08/02/17"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
08/03/17"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
08/04/17"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." - Sara June Parker
08/06/17"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - John Churton Collins
08/07/17"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
08/08/17"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten." - Andre Malraux
08/10/17"The goal isn't to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn't before." - Wil Wheaton,
08/11/17"Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones." - Stephen S. Ilardi PhD
08/12/17"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." - Pete Seeger
08/13/17"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz
08/14/17"Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!" - Ann Radcliffe
08/15/17"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." - Norman Vincent Peale
08/16/17"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
08/17/17"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." - Josh Billings
08/18/17"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." - Abraham Lincoln
08/19/17"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear." - Douglas Adams
08/20/17"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen
08/21/17"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run." - Babe Ruth
08/22/17"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" - Clarence Darrow
08/23/17"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks." - Helmuth von Moltke
08/24/17"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money." - William Lyon Phelps
08/25/17"Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back." - Oprah Winfrey
08/26/17"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" - Dr. Robert Schuller
08/27/17"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - G. K. Chesterton
08/28/17"I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself." - L. M. Montgomery
08/29/17"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore
08/30/17"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon
08/31/17"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov


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