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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2006 Archive

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03/01/06"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." - Kurt Vonnegut
03/02/06"Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained." - Baruch Spinoza
03/03/06"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
03/04/06"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." - Alfred Adler
03/05/06"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
03/06/06"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Byron
03/07/06"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation." - Cicero
03/08/06"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment." - A.A. Milne
03/09/06"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts." - Clarence Shepard Day
03/10/06"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
03/11/06"Before you can do something you must first be something." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
03/12/06"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." - Marcus Aurelius
03/13/06"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03/14/06"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education." - Chuang-tzu
03/15/06"Remember March, the Ides of March remember. Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab and not for justice?"
03/16/06"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." - Malcolm Forbes
03/17/06"O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin'; round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! No more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green!" - Unknown
03/18/06"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' " - Susan Sontag
03/19/06"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
03/20/06"Spring in the world! And all things are made new!" - Richard Hovey
03/21/06"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
03/22/06"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." - Elisabeth KuBler-Ross
03/23/06"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance." - Samuel Johnson
03/24/06"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself." - Anthony Trollope
03/25/06"What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries - these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the soul." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03/26/06"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts." - William Hazlit
03/27/06"If we don't expect, we have all things." - Buddha
03/28/06"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole
03/29/06"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison
03/30/06"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
03/31/06"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get." - Bertrand Russell


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