Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (a) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (b) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back

 “The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren (August 1980)

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Thought For the Day: A Certain Amount of Opposition Is A Great Help To A Man. Kites Rise Against, Not With, the Wind

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” – John Neal, author and critic (25 Aug 1793-1876)

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Thought For the Day: Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound That Saved A Wretch Like Me! I Once Was Lost But Now Am Found, Was Blind But Now I See

“Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.” – John Newton

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Thought For the Day: Watch With Glittering Eyes the Whole World Around You Because the Greatest Secrets Are Always Hidden In the Most Unlikely Places

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

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Thought For the Day: I Have Never Listened To Anyone Who Criticized My Taste In Space Travel, Sideshows or Gorillas. When This Occurs, I Pack Up My Dinosaurs and Leve the Room

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” – Ray Bradbury

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Thought For the Day: You Know That Place Between Sleep and Awake, That Place Where You Still Remember Dreaming? That’s Where I’ll Always Love you

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” – Peter Pan

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Thought For the Day: You’re Only Given A Little Spark of Madness and If You Lose That, You’re Nothing

“You’re only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you’re nothing.” – Robin Williams, in A Night at the Roxy

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Thought For the Day: If We Were To Wake Up Some Morning and Find That Everyone Was the Same Race, Creed, and Color, We Would Find Some Other Cause For Prejudice By Noon

“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” – George D. Aiken, US senator (20 Aug 1892-1984)

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Thought For the Day: Gravity Explains the Motions of the Planets, But It Cannot Explain Who Sets the Planets In Motion

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion” – Isaac Newton

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Thought For the Day: Whatever Disunites Man From God, Also Disunites Man From Man

 “Whatever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” – Edmund Burke

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