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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2017 Archive

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02/01/17"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term." - Harry Stack Sullivan
02/02/17"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
02/03/17"Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." - Mike Van Hoozer
02/04/17"A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps." - Thomas J. Watson
02/05/17"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." - William H. Gass
02/06/17"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold." - John Leonard
02/07/17"People are so unaccustomed to very good service that when they see it they are dazzled by it." - James Barksdale
02/08/17"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
02/09/17"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind." - Kahlil Gibran
02/10/17"The only way out is through." - Robert Frost
02/11/17"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life." - Brian Tracy
02/12/17"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed." - Luther Burbank
02/13/17"Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you." - Ronald A. Heifetz
02/14/17"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single world: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." - Winston Churchill
02/15/17"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten." - Kemal Ataturk
02/16/17"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
02/17/17"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
02/18/17"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." - Theodor Adorno
02/19/17"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel
02/20/17"If freedom means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
02/21/17"If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
02/22/17"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." - Sigmund Freud
02/23/17"The measure of a man is what he does with power." - Pittacus
02/24/17"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke
02/25/17"The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - Niccolò Machiavelli
02/26/17"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
02/27/17"It is better to die on your feet that to live on your knees." - Emiliano Zapata
02/28/17"The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party." - John C. Calhoun


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