September 30, 2003
“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.”
Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
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7:20 AM
September 29, 2003
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.”
André Gide (1869-1951) French writer
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7:17 AM
September 26, 2003
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
Richard L. Evans
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7:08 AM
September 25, 2003
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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7:10 AM
September 24, 2003
“Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, ‘I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?’”
Margaret Maron (contemp.) American writer
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7:10 AM
September 23, 2003
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
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7:14 AM
September 22, 2003
“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.”
Swedish proverb
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7:09 AM
September 19, 2003
“When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.”
Louis Binstock
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7:14 AM
September 18, 2003
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
William Arthur Ward
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7:19 AM
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
William Arthur Ward
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7:19 AM
September 17, 2003
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
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11:33 AM
September 16, 2003
“A wise man learns something new every day. The fool knows it all already.”
anonymous
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5:44 AM
September 15, 2003
“The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.”
Edward R. Murrow
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7:10 AM
September 12, 2003
“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.”
Hsi-Tang
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7:24 AM
September 11, 2003
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright
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1:54 PM
September 10, 2003
“No matter what a man's past may have been his future is spotless.”
John R. Rice
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3:25 PM
September 9, 2003
“Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.”
Richard Ben Sapir
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7:34 AM
September 8, 2003
“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
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1:36 PM
September 5, 2003
“I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.”
John W. Gardner (b. 1912) American writer, government official
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7:17 AM
September 4, 2003
“The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.” Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (1899-1973)
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7:16 AM
September 3, 2003
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
Bill Gates (b. 1955) American software magnate
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8:22 AM
September 2, 2003
“The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.”
Robert Pirsig (b. 1928) American philosopher, writer
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7:18 AM
September 1, 2003
“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer, lecturer
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