Thought for Today

"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."

~~~~~ Hosea Ballou

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Thought for Today

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

~~~~~ Henri Poincare

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"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."

~~~~~ Oskar Schindler

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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."

~~~~~ Herbert Spencer

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"There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."

~~~~~ Bernard Malamud

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"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

~~~~~ Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Bt., 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916

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"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

~~~~~ Anthony Trollope

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"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."

~~~~~ Edwin Markham

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"Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."

~~~~~ Kingsley Amis

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"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

~~~~~ Hippolyte Taine

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"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

~~~~~ Lionel Hampton

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"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language."

~~~~~ Fisher Ames

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"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."

~~~~~ John Podhoretz

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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."

~~~~~ Thornton Wilder

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"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."

~~~~~ Peter Ustinov

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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

~~~~~ Corrie Ten Boom

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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.*"

~~~~~ John Paul Stevens

(*Note that Justice Stevens wrote "religion," not "religion with the sole exception of Islam." Its adherents have the exact same rights and privileges as those of all other religions – no more; no less.)

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

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"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."

~~~~~ Josh Billings

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"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

~~~~~ Charles Evans Hughes

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"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."

~~~~~ William Booth

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"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."

~~~~~ Iain Duncan Smith

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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

~~~~~ Mary Pickford

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"The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend."

~~~~~ Walter Winchell

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"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not."

~~~~~ Neal Boortz

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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."

~~~~~ Anne Sullivan

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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."

~~~~~ Calvin Coolidge

Thought for Today

"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."

~~~~~ Edward Everett Hale

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"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."

~~~~~ Walter Chrysler

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"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

~~~~~ Otto von Bismarck