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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVES
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

FEBRUARY 2001


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DATETHOUGHT OF THE DAY
2/01/01      "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
2/02/01      "The death of dogma is the birth of reality." - Immanuel Kant
2/03/01      "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?' " - Will Rogers
2/04/01      "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
2/05/01      "I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
2/06/01      "How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." - Mark Twain
2/07/01      "Success covers a multitude of blunders." - George Bernard Shaw
2/08/01      "Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers." - James Thurber
2/09/01      "To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?" - Confucius
2/10/01      "My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality." - Oscar Wilde
2/11/01      "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." - E. F. Schumacher
2/12/01      "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
2/13/01      "Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now." - Charlotte P Gilman
2/14/01      "Never so happily in one did heaven and earth combine; and yet 'tis flesh and blood alone that makes her so divine." - Thomas D'Urfey
2/15/01      "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner
2/16/01      "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean." - Goethe
2/17/01      "If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!" - Christopher Spranger
2/18/01      "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Publilius Syrus
2/19/01      "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein
2/20/01      "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." - G.K. Chesterton
2/21/01      "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." - George Bernard Shaw
2/22/01      "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
2/23/01      "When you sling mud, you lose ground." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
2/24/01      "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Henry David Thoreau
2/25/01      "Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do." - Lin Yutang
2/26/01      "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
2/27/01      "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
2/28/01      "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

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