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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2019 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
02/01/19"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live." - Victor Hugo
02/02/19"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it." - Miguel de Cervantes
02/03/19"...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you." - Woodrow Wilson
02/04/19"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth." - Will Rogers
02/05/19"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt
02/06/19"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'" - Quincy Jones
02/07/19"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
02/08/19"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves." - Edith Sitwell
02/09/19"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying." - Michel de Montaigne
02/10/19"I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name." - Larry Page
02/11/19"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor
02/12/19"He who will not economize will have to agonize." - Confucius
02/13/19"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp
02/14/19"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves." - Blaise Pascal
02/15/19"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." - Arnold Toynbee
02/16/19"What's done cannot be undone." - William Shakespeare
02/17/19"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster
02/18/19"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - Sidney J. Harris
02/19/19"No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many." - Theodore Roosevelt
02/20/19"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." - R. Buckminster Fuller
02/21/19"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." - Ayn Rand
02/22/19"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke
02/23/19"By the work one knows the workmen." - Jean De La Fontaine
02/24/19"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/25/19"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
02/26/19"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
02/27/19"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
02/28/19"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others." - Eric Hoffer


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