DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
4/1/11 |
"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is ... the highway to success." - Og Mandino
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4/2/11 |
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
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4/3/11 |
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Sir Barnett Cocks
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4/4/11 |
"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness." - Charles W. Eliot
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4/5/11 |
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
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4/6/11 |
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling
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4/7/11 |
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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4/8/11 |
"Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect."- Blaise Pascal
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4/9/11 |
"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest." - William Faulkner
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4/10/11 |
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry
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4/11/11 |
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore
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4/12/11 |
"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton
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4/13/11 |
"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
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4/14/11 |
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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4/15/11 |
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Lady Dorothy Nevill
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4/16/11 |
"Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" - Laurence J. Peter
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4/17/11 |
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould
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4/18/11 |
"There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world." - Lady Marguerite Gardiner
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4/19/11 |
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." - Nadine Gordimer
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4/20/11 |
"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." - James Allen
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4/21/11 |
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
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4/22/11 |
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz
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4/23/11 |
"The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember," - Mark Twain
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4/24/11 |
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
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4/25/11 |
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
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4/26/11 |
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert
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4/27/11 |
"If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out." - Rabindranath Tagore
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4/28/11 |
"Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware." - Anne Lamott
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4/29/11 |
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes
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4/30/11 |
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
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