| Date |
Thought |
Author |
Author's
Title |
01/01 |
Happy New Year! |
Factel Staff |
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01/02 |
"Happiness that is shared goes undiminished" |
Siddhartha Buddah 560-480 B.C. |
Founder of Buddhism |
01/03 |
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." |
Albert Schweitzer |
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01/04 |
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." |
William G. McAdoo |
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01/05 |
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." |
Thomas Carlyle |
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01/06 |
Never give advice unless asked, |
German Proverb |
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01/07 |
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." |
Harry S. Truman |
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01/08 |
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. |
Spanish Proverb |
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01/09 |
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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01/10 |
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." |
Aristotle |
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01/11 |
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" |
Edgar Bergen |
American entertainer |
01/12 |
"Getting fired is natures way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." |
Hal Lancaster |
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01/13 |
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." |
Ogden Nash |
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01/14 |
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." |
Thomas Edison |
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01/15 |
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." |
Robert Frost |
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01/16 |
"Drive-in banks were created so most of the cars today could see their real owners." |
J. Joseph Crossman |
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01/17 |
"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." |
Lester J. Pourciau |
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01/18 |
"Conceit is God's gift to little men." |
Bruce Barton |
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01/19 |
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." |
Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
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01/20 |
"Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard." |
Phocylides |
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01/21 |
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do." |
Dale Carnegie |
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01/22 |
"Procrastination is the thief of time." |
Edward Young |
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01/23 |
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." |
Mark Twain |
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01/24 |
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." |
Syrus 42 B.C. |
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01/25 |
"Never mistake motion for action." |
Ernest Hemingway |
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01/26 |
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." |
Groucho Marx |
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01/27 |
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. |
English Proverb |
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01/28 |
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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01/29 |
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." |
King Edward VIII (1894-1972) |
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01/30 |
"When anger rises, think of the consequences." |
Confucius |
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01/31 |
"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." |
Oprah Winfrey |
|
02/01 |
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." |
Bertrand Russell |
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02/02 |
"Some thing things have to be believed to be seen." |
Ralph Hodgson |
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02/03 |
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." |
George Bernard Shaw |
British Author |
02/04 |
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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02/05 |
"If you are going through hell, keep going." |
Winston Churchill |
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02/06 |
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." |
Oscar Wilde |
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02/07 |
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." |
Samuel Johnson |
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02/08 |
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." |
Carl Sagan |
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02/09 |
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." |
Jimi Hendrix |
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02/10 |
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." |
Henry Kissinger |
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02/11 |
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." |
Henry Ford |
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02/12 |
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." |
Henry David Thoreau |
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02/13 |
"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." |
Duchess of Windsor |
When asked for the secret of a long and happy life. |
02/14 |
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." |
Gore Vidal |
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02/15 |
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." |
Socrates |
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02/16 |
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology will exceed our humanity." |
Albert Einstein |
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02/17 |
"Any man under 30, and is not liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." |
Winston Churchill |
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02/18 |
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." |
W.B. Prescott |
|
02/19 |
"What do you take me for, an idiot?" |
Charles de Gaulle |
When asked if he was happy |
02/20 |
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." |
Albert Einstein |
|
02/21 |
"It is choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." |
Jean Nidetch |
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02/22 |
"Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change." |
Jerry Frankhauser |
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02/23 |
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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02/24 |
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." |
Jack London |
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02/25 |
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without a clear question." |
Albert Camus |
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02/26 |
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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02/27 |
"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better" |
Wendell Phillips |
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02/28 |
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." |
Josh Billings |
|
02/29 |
"The wisest man has something yet to learn." |
George Santayana |
|
03/01 |
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." |
Immanuel Kant |
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03/02 |
"What worries you masters you." |
Haddon W. Robinson |
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03/03 |
"Trust men and they will be true to you. Treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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03/04 |
"The truth is more important than the facts." |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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03/05 |
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." |
Lane Olinghouse |
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03/06 |
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." |
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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03/07 |
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." |
Horace Mann |
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03/08 |
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?" |
Benjamin Franklin |
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03/09 |
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. |
Scottish Proverb |
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03/10 |
"The future ain't what it used to be." |
Yogi Berra |
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03/11 |
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." |
Abraham Lincoln |
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03/12 |
"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." |
Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) |
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03/13 |
"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received." |
Seneca (5 B.C -65 A.D.) |
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03/14 |
"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes, she's a tramp." |
Joan Rivers |
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03/15 |
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone." |
Anthony Burgess |
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03/16 |
"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes." |
Steven Wright |
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03/17 |
"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." |
Phyllis Diller |
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03/18 |
"I wan'all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan'all the kids to copulate me" |
Andre Dawson |
Chicago Cubs outfielder |
03/19 |
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missles and misguided men." |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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