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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
06/01/13"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire
06/02/13"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
06/03/13"Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
06/04/13"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
06/05/13"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez
06/06/13"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell
06/07/13"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
06/08/13"Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some." - Robert Fulghum
06/09/13"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!" - Eubie Blake
06/10/13"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
06/11/13"Fair winds and following seas and long may your big jib draw!" - Naval Blessing
06/12/13"Anger as soon as fed is dead / 'Tis starving makes it fat." - Emily Dickinson
06/13/13"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
06/14/13"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
06/15/13"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin
06/16/13"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
06/17/13"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
06/18/13"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson
06/19/13"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre
06/20/13"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
06/21/13"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
06/22/13"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Winston Churchill
06/23/13"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
06/24/13"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford
06/25/13"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
06/26/13"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
06/27/13"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
06/28/13"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." - Andrew Carnegie
06/29/13"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante Alighieri
06/30/13"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche


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