October 31, 2003
“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. Mistakes are the lessons of wisdom.”
Anonymous
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8:32 AM
October 30, 2003
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
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10:03 AM
October 29, 2003
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
M. Grundler
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6:17 AM
October 28, 2003
“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.” Tryon Edwards
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4:57 PM
October 27, 2003
“How do you get through life not being funny?”
Mike Meyer’s dad
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7:08 AM
October 24, 2003
"He did each single thing as if he did nothing else."
Charles Dickens
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8:35 AM
October 23, 2003
“Bad officials are elected by good people who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan (1892-1958) American editor and critic
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10:14 AM
October 22, 2003
“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”
Anonymous
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7:43 AM
October 21, 2003
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
Dudley F. Malone (1882-1950) American diplomat
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8:50 AM
October 20, 2003
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
Dale Carnegie
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7:48 AM
October 17, 2003
“Life is about pleasure and enjoyment, and if we are not enjoying what we are doing, then why are we doing it?"
Don Norman
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7:44 AM
October 16, 2003
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
Lloyd Douglas (1877-1951) American Congregationalist clergyman and novelist
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8:19 AM
October 15, 2003
“The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.”
Thomas Cowan
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7:36 AM
October 14, 2003
“Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of you do today. Make every second count!”
Christie Jean-Baptiste
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7:25 AM
October 13, 2003
“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.”
P.J. O’Rourke
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9:02 AM
October 10, 2003
“We are nature’s unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.”
Jacob Bronowski
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12:51 PM
October 9, 2003
“Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.” Anonymous
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7:15 AM
October 8, 2003
“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English politician and author
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7:06 AM
October 7, 2003
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
Howard W. Newton
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8:45 AM
October 6, 2003
“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan (1908-1981) American writer
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10:15 AM
October 3, 2003
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
Dr. Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) Ukrainian chess grandmaster
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1:53 PM
October 2, 2003
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
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1:17 PM
October 1, 2003
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
Plato (c.428-347 BC) Greek philosopher
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1:30 PM