Thought for Today

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."

~~~~~ Pam Brown

Thought for Today

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

~~~~~ Theophile Gautier

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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

~~~~~ Charles F. Kettering

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"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."

~~~~~ Robertson Davies

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"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."

~~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."

~~~~~ Elmer Davis

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"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."

~~~~~ John Newton

Thought for Today

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

~~~~~ Orson Scott Card

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"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."

~~~~ Vera Rubin

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"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

~~~~~ Norman Schwarzkopf

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"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect."

~~~~~ Thomas S. Monson

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"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."

~~~~~ Paul Tillich

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"Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists."

~~~~~ Fred Thompson

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"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."

~~~~ Caspar Weinberger

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"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life."

~~~~~ Samuel Goldwyn

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"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."

~~~~~ E. F. Schumacher

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"Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be."

~~~~~ Phyllis Schlafly

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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

~~~~~ Russell Baker

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"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."

~~~~ William Bernbach

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"I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money."

~~~~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

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"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged."

~~~~ Frederick W. Smith

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"Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury."

~~~~~ Herbert Hoover

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"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to."

~~~~ Bob Cousy

Thought for Today

"Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

~~~~ Sara Teasdale

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"We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts."

~~~~~ Alan Keyes

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"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this – never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."

~~~~ Alexander Fleming (discoverer of penicillin)

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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

~~~~~ Winston Churchill

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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."

~~~~ Louis Armstrong

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"Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment."

~~~~~ Walter Wriston

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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."

~~~~~ Dennis Prager

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"One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent."

~~~~~ Meir Kahane