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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2017 Archive

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06/01/17"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?" - Lillian Hellman
06/02/17"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
06/03/17"History is a vast early warning system." - Norman Cousins
06/04/17"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean Jacques Rousseau
06/05/17"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
06/06/17"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - - Jesus, Mark 8:36(King James Bible)
06/07/17"Laws are for little people." - Author unknown
06/08/17"Winners take responsibility, losers blame others." - Brit Hume
06/09/17"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." - James Madison
06/10/17"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell
06/11/17"Mountain tops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." - J. Phillip Everson
06/12/17"I never took lessons to play the drums. I never took lessons to play the guitar. I just sort of figured it out. I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, you can do anything you want to do in life." - Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
06/13/17"If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/14/17"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
06/15/17"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." - Alexander Pope
06/16/17"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
06/17/17"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
06/18/17"Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
06/19/17"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
06/20/17"The world may think you are only one person. But to one person, you may be their world." - Author Unknown
06/21/17"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington
06/22/17"We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong." - Karl Popper
06/23/17"Control your own destiny or someone else will." - Jack Welch
06/24/17"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
06/25/17"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." - P.D. James
06/26/17"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." - George Orwell
06/27/17"Longevity means we have to evolve, that we have to change and be able to change." - Wolfgang Puck
06/28/17"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells
06/29/17"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton
06/30/17"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston


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