Thought for Today

"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."

~~~~~ Sydney J. Harris

Thought for Today

"The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."

~~~~~ Ludwig von Mises

Thought for Today

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

~~~~~ Georges Clemenceau

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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."

~~~~~ Samuel Adams

Thought for Today

"Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious."

~~~~~ Charles Munch

Thought for Today

"Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew."

~~~~~ Eric Williams

Thought for Today

"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

~~~~~ Horace Walpole

Thought for Today

"Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!"

~~~~~ Jane Taylor

Thought for Today

"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly."

~~~~~ Michael Faraday

Thought for Today

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

~~~~~ H. G. Wells

Thought for Today

"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."

~~~~~ Sister Elizabeth Kenny

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"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed."

~~~~~ Lajos Kossuth

Thought for Today

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

~~~~~ Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."

~~~~~ Marquis de Condorcet

Thought for Today

"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."

~~~~~ James Cash Penney

Thought for Today

"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person."

~~~~~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thought for Today

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is."

~~~~~ Allan Bloom

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"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

~~~~~ Julius Charles Hare

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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."

~~~~~ H. L. Mencken

Thought for Today

"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

~~~~~ O. Henry

Thought for Today

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"

~~~~~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Thought for Today

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

~~~~~ Leo Tolstoy

Thought for Today

"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."

~~~~~ Claude Pepper

Thought for Today

"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough."

~~~~~ David Packard

Thought for Today

"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties."

~~~~~ Marquis de Lafayette

Thought for Today

"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."

~~~~~ Christoph Martin Wieland

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"Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented."

~~~~~ Richard Wright

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"We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president."

~~~~~ Dave Ramsey

Thought for Today

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

~~~~~ Hiram Johnson

Thought for Today

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

~~~~~ Kin Hubbard