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Thought-of-the-Day
April 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
04/01/14"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin
04/02/14"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
04/03/14"Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Science without humanity; Knowledge without character; Politics without principle; Commerce without morality; Worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi
04/04/14"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald
04/05/14"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway
04/06/14"Don't think or judge, just listen." - Sarah Dessen
04/07/14"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche
04/08/14"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulghum
04/09/14"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." - Gustave Flaubert
04/10/14"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
04/11/14"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
04/12/14"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato
04/13/14"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus
04/14/14"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury
04/15/14"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
04/16/14"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
04/17/14"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
04/18/14"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." - Virginia Woolf
04/19/14"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
04/20/14"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt
04/21/14"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
04/22/14"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. " - John Greenleaf Whittier
04/23/14"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
04/24/14"Never memorize something that you can look up." - Albert Einstein
04/25/14"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." - George R.R. Martin
04/26/14"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." - Jodi Picoult
04/27/14"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
04/28/14"Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
04/29/14"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
04/30/14"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut


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