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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2019 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
04/01/19"Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth." - Barack Obama
04/02/19"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
04/03/19"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." - Hyman Rickover
04/04/19"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder
04/05/19"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
04/06/19"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there." - Belle Livingstone
04/07/19"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
04/08/19"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings
04/09/19"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose." Thomas Szasz
04/10/19"Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers." - Randy Pausch
04/11/19"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..." - Pablo Picasso
04/12/19"Praise youth and it will prosper." - Irish Proverb
04/13/19"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with." - Jane Austen
04/14/19"Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment." - Lord Newborough
04/15/19"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights." - Victor Hugo
04/16/19"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming
04/17/19"All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown." - Oprah Winfrey
04/18/19"Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold." - Ecclesiasticus
04/19/19"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
04/20/19"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
04/21/19"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
04/22/19"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
04/23/19"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark." - Chinese Proverb
04/24/19"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." - Ronald Reagan
04/25/19"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates
04/26/19"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young." - Mark Twain
04/27/19"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." - Eleanor Roosevelt
04/28/19"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J. K. Rowling
04/29/19"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau
04/30/19"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy


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