Thought
for Today
Presented
by Wes Penre, October 2007
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Thoughts Archives
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October 28.
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"A positive attitude will not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it
worth the effort!"
Herm Albright (1876-1944)
October 27.
"Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as
dead"
C.G.
Jung (1875-1961)
October 26.
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of
the majority, it is time to reform"
Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
October 25.
"If you bring forth what is within you
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you
what you do not bring forth will destroy you"
Gospel of Thomas
(discovered in 1945)
October 15.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at
times of challenge and controversy."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US
civil rights leader
October 12.
"When buying and selling are controlled by
legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators."
P.
J. O'Rourke - (b. 1947) US humorist, journalist, &
political commentator
October 11.
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is
to let him have his own way."
Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885)
American humorist and lecturer
October 10.
"The trouble with most folks isn't so much their
ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so."
Josh Billings - [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885)
American humorist and lecturer
October 09.
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in
the name of the noblest causes."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
October 07.
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"If you continuously point out a person's weaknesses,
this will only strengthen and multiply his/her
weaknesses.
If you instead keep pointing out the persons strengths,
this will improve both the strengths and the
weaknesses."
Wes Penre (b. 1958)
October 06.
"Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that
myths are just myths."
Michael Tsarion
October 05.
". . government is instituted for the protection,
safety, and happiness of the people, and not for profit,
honour, or private interest of any man, family, or class
of men. . the origin of all power is in the people, and
they have an incontestable right to check the creatures
of their own creation, vested with certain powers to
guard the life, liberty and property of the community.
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Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), poet, historian,
patriot, and advocate of the Bill of Rights
October 04.
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one
in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses
and their army of managers control a population of
slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love
their servitude. To make them love it is the task
assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to
ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and
schoolteachers."
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Author Source: Forward to
'Brave New World', 1932
October 03.
"I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation
of workers"
John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937)
October 02.
"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it
is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now
people want to think only what they are supposed to
think, and this they consider freedom."
Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936) Source: The Decline of
the West, 1926
October 01.
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is
wrong."
Voltaire
- [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
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