DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
5/1/08 |
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
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5/2/08 |
"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
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5/3/08 |
"A very popular error - having the courage of one's convictions: Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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5/4/08 |
"People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority." - Philip Chesterfield
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5/5/08 |
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas Kempis
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5/6/08 |
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
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5/7/08 |
"Scoundrels are always sociable." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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5/8/08 |
"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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5/9/08 |
"Mediocrity is a hand-rail." - Charles Louis de Secondat
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5/10/08 |
"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." - Voltaire
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5/11/08 |
"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." - Suzanne Necker
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5/12/08 |
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
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5/13/08 |
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
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5/14/08 |
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - E. B. White
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5/15/08 |
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Sir R. F. Burton
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5/16/08 |
"We live in our desires rather than in our achievements." - George Moore
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5/17/08 |
"O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - William Shakespeare
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5/18/08 |
"I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything." - Vladimir Nabokov
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5/19/08 |
"It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies." - Bertrand Russell
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5/20/08 |
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." - Margaret Mead
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5/21/08 |
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." - David Hume
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5/22/08 |
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
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5/23/08 |
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
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5/24/08 |
"The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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5/25/08 |
"Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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5/26/08 |
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean Paul Sartre
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5/27/08 |
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka
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5/28/08 |
"Mythology is what we call someone else's religion." - Joseph Campbell
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5/29/08 |
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
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5/30/08 |
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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5/31/08 |
"Never was anything great achieved without danger." - Niccolo Machiavelli
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