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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
10/01/08 | "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." - H. H. Munro |
10/02/08 | "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre |
10/03/08 | "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." - Igor Stravinsky |
10/04/08 | "The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - H. L. Mencken |
10/05/08 | "If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner |
10/06/08 | "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T. S. Eliot |
10/07/08 | "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu |
10/08/08 | "For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity." - Will Rogers |
10/09/08 | "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln |
10/10/08 | "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain |
10/11/08 | "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato |
10/12/08 | "Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller |
10/13/08 | "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright |
10/14/08 | "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire |
10/15/08 | "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
10/16/08 | "Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money." - Robert H. Jackson |
10/17/08 | "If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known." - W.E.B. Du Bois |
10/18/08 | "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - George Washington |
10/19/08 | "To be free / Is often to be lonely." - W.H. Auden |
10/20/08 | "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy |
10/21/08 | "A friend in power is a friend lost." - Henry Adams |
10/22/08 | "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton |
10/23/08 | "Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite." - Abraham Lincoln |
10/24/08 | "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson |
10/25/08 | "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas Henry Huxley |
10/26/08 | "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |
10/27/08 | "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde |
10/28/08 | "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot |
10/29/08 | "Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect." - Lionel Trilling |
10/30/08 | "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan |
10/31/08 | "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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