Thought for Today

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts."

~~~~~ Axel Munthe

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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

~~~~~ John Adams

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"As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945."

~~~~~ Joseph Rotblat

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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

~~~~~ Evelyn Waugh

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"I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear."

~~~~~ Benjamin F. Wade

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"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."

~~~~~ Napoleon Hill

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"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."

~~~~~ Max Stirner

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"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

~~~~~ James Mackintosh

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"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."

~~~~~ Francis Jeffrey

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"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."

~~~~~ Franz Liszt

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"Lying is the greatest of all sins."

~~~~~ Alfred Nobel

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"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."

~~~~~ Stanislaus I

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"By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief."

~~~~~ John Woolman

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"Not drunk is he who from the floor -
Can rise alone and still drink more;
But drunk is They, who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise."

~~~~~ Thomas Love Peacock

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"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small."

~~~~~ Richard Mentor Johnson

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"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."

~~~~~ David Ben-Gurion

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"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

~~~~~ P. G. Wodehouse

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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

~~~~~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."

~~~~~ Albert J. Nock

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"A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious."

~~~~~ Ed Royce

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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."

~~~~~ Justice Harlan Stone

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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

~~~~~ Lewis Cass

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"Friends are the sunshine of life."

~~~~~ John Hay

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"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson

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"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way."

~~~~~ Caroline Gordon

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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

~~~~~ Denis Diderot

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"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

~~~~~ Rutherford B. Hayes

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"I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside."

~~~~~ James Herriot

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"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."

~~~~~ Elizabeth Montagu

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"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."

~~~~~ Fletcher Knebel