"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~~~~~ Berthold Auerbach
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Thought for Today
Friday, February 27, 2015
Thought for Today
"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Thought for Today
"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
~~~~~ Victor Hugo
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Thought for Today
"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
~~~~~ John Foster Dulles
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Thought for Today
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
~~~~~ Chester W. Nimitz
Monday, February 23, 2015
Thought for Today
"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
~~~~~ Karl Jaspers
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Thought for Today
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
~~~~~ George Washington
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Thought for Today
"We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe."
~~~~~ John Henry Newman
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thought for Today
"The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
~~~~~ Ken Olsen
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Thought for Today
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
~~~~~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Thought for Today
"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
~~~~~ Charles M. Schwab
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Thought for Today
"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
~~~~~ Chaim Potok
Monday, February 16, 2015
Thought for Today
"The press is the hired agent of a moneyed system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
~~~~~ Henry Adams
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Thought for Today
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
~~~~~ Susan B. Anthony
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Thought for Today
"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind."
~~~~~ Frank Harris
Friday, February 13, 2015
Thought for Today
"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."
~~~~~ Sarojini Naidu
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Thought for Today
"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."
~~~~~ Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Thought for Today
"If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."
~~~~~ Leo Szilard
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Thought for Today
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"
~~~~~ William Allen White
Monday, February 9, 2015
Thought for Today
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
~~~~~ William Henry Harrison
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Thought for Today
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
~~~~~ John Ruskin
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Thought for Today
"The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for."
~~~~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Friday, February 6, 2015
Thought for Today
"Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?"
~~~~~ Adam Weishaupt
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Thought for Today
"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own."
~~~~~ James Otis
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Thought for Today
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
~~~~~ Ludwig Erhard
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Thought for Today
"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."
~~~~~ Horace Greeley
Monday, February 2, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Thought for Today
"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."
~~~~~ Richard Whately
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