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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
4/1/22
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
4/2/22
"Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities." - Malala Yousafzai
4/3/22
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell
4/4/22
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." - J. K. Rowling
4/5/22
"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." - Steve Jobs
4/6/22
"One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first." - Malala Yousafzai
4/7/22
"Common Sense is not so common." - Voltaire, from Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764) ‘Sens Commun’.
4/8/22
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause." - Theodore Roosevelt
4/9/22
"I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could." - Eleanor Roosevelt
4/10/22
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." - Colin Powell quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
4/11/22
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work." - Neil Armstrong
4/12/22
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
4/13/22
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell
4/14/22
"Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still." - Thales
4/15/22
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
4/16/22
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
4/17/22
"Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life." - Kristi Yamaguchi
4/18/22
"We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation." - Warren Buffett
4/19/22
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Curie
4/20/22
"Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!" - Isaac Asimov from Asimov, Isaac, and Guide to science. Asimov’s Guide to Science. United Kingdom, Basic Books, 1972, p.15.
4/21/22
"Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future." - Elizabeth II
4/22/22
"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C. S. Lewis
4/23/22
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." - Victor Hugo
4/24/22
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
4/25/22
"Common Sense is not so common." - Voltaire
4/26/22
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
4/27/22
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington
4/28/22
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
4/29/22
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel
4/30/22
"And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the fierce urgency of now — we should not fear change, we should embrace it." - Barack Obama
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