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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2001 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
02/01/01"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
02/02/01"The death of dogma is the birth of reality." - Immanuel Kant
02/03/01"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
02/04/01"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
02/05/01"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
02/06/01"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." - Mark Twain
02/07/01"Success covers a multitude of blunders." - George Bernard Shaw
02/08/01"Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers." - James Thurber
02/09/01"To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?" - Confucius
02/10/01"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
02/11/01"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
02/12/01"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
02/13/01"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
02/14/01"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
02/15/01"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner
02/16/01"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean." - Goethe
02/17/01"If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!" - Christopher Spranger
02/18/01"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Publilius Syrus
02/19/01"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
02/20/01"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
02/21/01"England and America are two countries separated by the same language." - George Bernard Shaw
02/22/01"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
02/23/01"When you sling mud, you lose ground." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
02/24/01"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Henry David Thoreau
02/25/01"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do." - Lin Yutang
02/26/01"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
02/27/01"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
02/28/01"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde


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