var ThoughtForTodayItem = new Array();var ThoughtForTodayQual = new Array();ThoughtForTodayItem[0] ="Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.";ThoughtForTodayQual[0] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book VII. 536";ThoughtForTodayItem[1] ="A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.";ThoughtForTodayQual[1] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[2] ="Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.";ThoughtForTodayQual[2] ="Bruno Jasienski (Yasensky)";ThoughtForTodayItem[3] ="This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!";ThoughtForTodayQual[3] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[4] ="Respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, ... and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.";ThoughtForTodayQual[4] ="Preamble to the Libertarian Platform";ThoughtForTodayItem[5] ="Prejudices of all kinds - whether religious, racial, patriotic or political - are destructive of Divine foundations in man. All the warfare and bloodshed in human history have been the outcome of prejudice.";ThoughtForTodayQual[5] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[6] ="Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.";ThoughtForTodayQual[6] ="Albert_von_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi_Nagyrapolt<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[7] ="There. There,' said the marquis de Carabas, awkwardly, patting her shoulder. And he added, for good measure, 'There.' He did not comfort well.";ThoughtForTodayQual[7] ="Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere";ThoughtForTodayItem[8] ="Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.";ThoughtForTodayQual[8] ="Winston Churchill<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[9] ="First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.";ThoughtForTodayQual[9] ="Martin Niemoeller<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[10] ="Fighting and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. Hearts must be changed.";ThoughtForTodayQual[10] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[11] ="Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference";ThoughtForTodayQual[11] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[12] ="Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.";ThoughtForTodayQual[12] ="Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[13] ="Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.";ThoughtForTodayQual[13] ="Oliver Herford";ThoughtForTodayItem[14] ="If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.";ThoughtForTodayQual[14] ="J.D. Salinger, opening line of The Catcher in the Rye";ThoughtForTodayItem[15] ="That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.";ThoughtForTodayQual[15] ="William J.H. Boetcker<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[16] ="Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.";ThoughtForTodayQual[16] ="Bertrand Russell<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[17] ="A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste";ThoughtForTodayQual[17] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[18] ="There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.";ThoughtForTodayQual[18] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[19] ="The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.";ThoughtForTodayQual[19] ="H. L. Mencken<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[20] ="The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy";ThoughtForTodayQual[20] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[21] ="When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.";ThoughtForTodayQual[21] ="Mae West<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[22] ="You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.";ThoughtForTodayQual[22] ="Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[23] ="Bognor [Regis]<\/a> has always meant to me the quintessential English seaside experience (before all this global warming stuff): driving in the rain to get there, walking around in the rain looking for something to do when you're there, and driving home in the rain again...";ThoughtForTodayQual[23] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[24] ="There is no glory for him that committeth disorder in the earth after it hath been made so good.";ThoughtForTodayQual[24] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[25] ="You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.";ThoughtForTodayQual[25] ="Warren Beatty<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[26] ="An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.";ThoughtForTodayQual[26] ="Victor Hugo<\/a>, Ninetythree, 1874";ThoughtForTodayItem[27] ="Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.";ThoughtForTodayQual[27] ="Mae West<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[28] ="We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.";ThoughtForTodayQual[28] ="Plato<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[29] ="We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.";ThoughtForTodayQual[29] ="Decca Recording Company<\/a> executive rejecting The Beatles<\/a>, 1962.";ThoughtForTodayItem[30] ="There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.";ThoughtForTodayQual[30] ="Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf";ThoughtForTodayItem[31] ="I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.";ThoughtForTodayQual[31] ="Thomas Jefferson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[32] ="For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.";ThoughtForTodayQual[32] ="Charles Bukowski<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[33] ="There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.";ThoughtForTodayQual[33] ="Joseph Heller<\/a>, Catch22";ThoughtForTodayItem[34] ="The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least";ThoughtForTodayQual[34] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[35] ="I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.";ThoughtForTodayQual[35] ="Igor Stravinsky<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[36] ="One man scorned and covered with scars";ThoughtForTodayQual[36] ="Mitch Leigh<\/a>, The Quest, based on Cervantes";ThoughtForTodayItem[37] ="Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.";ThoughtForTodayQual[37] ="Will Durant<\/a>, The History of Civilization";ThoughtForTodayItem[38] ="Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.";ThoughtForTodayQual[38] ="Mae West<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[39] ="We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger";ThoughtForTodayQual[39] ="Tad Williams, Spoken by Dr. Morgenes, To Green Angel Tower (part of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)";ThoughtForTodayItem[40] ="Religions, races and nations are all divisions of man's making only; God is God for all and to Him all creation is one.";ThoughtForTodayQual[40] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[41] ="Management means helping people to get the best out of themselves, not organising things.";ThoughtForTodayQual[41] ="Lauren Appley";ThoughtForTodayItem[42] ="Common sense is an oxymoron - sense is very uncommon.";ThoughtForTodayQual[42] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[43] ="Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--";ThoughtForTodayQual[43] ="Robert Frost<\/a>, The Road Not Taken";ThoughtForTodayItem[44] ="It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.";ThoughtForTodayQual[44] ="Peter De Vries";ThoughtForTodayItem[45] ="Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.";ThoughtForTodayQual[45] ="Gautama Buddha<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[46] ="They whose hearts are warmed by the energizing influence of God's creative love - recognise in every human face a sign of His reflected glory.";ThoughtForTodayQual[46] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[47] ="The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.";ThoughtForTodayQual[47] ="Sir Hugh Walpole<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[48] ="Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.";ThoughtForTodayQual[48] ="Albert Camus<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[49] ="I think; therefore I am.";ThoughtForTodayQual[49] ="Rene Descartes";ThoughtForTodayItem[50] ="You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.";ThoughtForTodayQual[50] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>, Small Gods";ThoughtForTodayItem[51] ="Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.";ThoughtForTodayQual[51] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[52] ="The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.";ThoughtForTodayQual[52] ="Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[53] ="Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.";ThoughtForTodayQual[53] ="Irving Fisher<\/a>, Professor of Economics, Yale University<\/a>, 1929.";ThoughtForTodayItem[54] ="You thought you knew what pain was. You thought that whatever happened, you could handle it. You thought that you were in control. You thought wrong. Now you've lost it all. She's gone. All that's left is the numbing pain. You have to let go to stop the pain, but you can't. It's like a drug to you now. You don't want to need it, but it has become a part of you, and it won't loosen its grip on you. The control you once fought for, is gone. You have no control. And you just don't care.";ThoughtForTodayQual[54] ="Sanjay Singh";ThoughtForTodayItem[55] ="Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.";ThoughtForTodayQual[55] ="Isaac Asimov<\/a>, The New Hugo Winners";ThoughtForTodayItem[56] ="Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith.";ThoughtForTodayQual[56] ="Thomas Jefferson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[57] ="Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated";ThoughtForTodayQual[57] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[58] ="Trust is that which is not easily given but is quickly taken away.";ThoughtForTodayQual[58] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[59] ="Everything that can be invented has been invented.";ThoughtForTodayQual[59] ="Charles H. Duell<\/a>, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899";ThoughtForTodayItem[60] ="True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self.";ThoughtForTodayQual[60] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[61] ="A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth";ThoughtForTodayQual[61] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[62] ="In heaven all the interesting people are missing.";ThoughtForTodayQual[62] ="Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[63] ="Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[63] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[64] ="The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.";ThoughtForTodayQual[64] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[65] ="Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.";ThoughtForTodayQual[65] ="Dave Barry<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[66] ="Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.";ThoughtForTodayQual[66] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame";ThoughtForTodayItem[67] ="Lost time is never found again";ThoughtForTodayQual[67] ="Benjamin Franklin<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[68] ="Truth never damages a cause that is just";ThoughtForTodayQual[68] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[69] ="What the hell is it good for?";ThoughtForTodayQual[69] ="Robert Lloyd, engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, about 1968, commenting on the microprocessor.";ThoughtForTodayItem[70] ="Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen";ThoughtForTodayQual[70] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[71] ="Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.";ThoughtForTodayQual[71] ="Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance";ThoughtForTodayItem[72] ="Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.";ThoughtForTodayQual[72] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[73] ="On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, \"Is it safe?\" Expediency asks the question, \"Is it politic?\" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, \"Is it popular?\" But Conscience asks the question \"Is it right?\" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right";ThoughtForTodayQual[73] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[74] ="I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live";ThoughtForTodayQual[74] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[75] ="Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[75] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[76] ="The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct.";ThoughtForTodayQual[76] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[77] ="Pulling at an olive won't make it ripen faster.";ThoughtForTodayQual[77] ="Italian proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[78] ="Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy";ThoughtForTodayQual[78] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[79] ="I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness";ThoughtForTodayQual[79] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>, Letter to Sheikh El-Messiri, (28 August 1798)";ThoughtForTodayItem[80] ="Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.";ThoughtForTodayQual[80] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[81] ="Warfare and strife will be uprooted, disagreement and dissension pass away and universal peace unite the nations and peoples of the world.";ThoughtForTodayQual[81] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[82] ="There can be no doubt whatever that the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one Heavenly Source and are the subjects of One God.";ThoughtForTodayQual[82] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[83] ="If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.";ThoughtForTodayQual[83] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[84] ="Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons.";ThoughtForTodayQual[84] ="Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, March 1949";ThoughtForTodayItem[85] ="Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?";ThoughtForTodayQual[85] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[86] ="Truth is one when independently investigated; it does not accept division.";ThoughtForTodayQual[86] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[87] ="Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny";ThoughtForTodayQual[87] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[88] ="The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.";ThoughtForTodayQual[88] ="Doug Larson";ThoughtForTodayItem[89] ="I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change";ThoughtForTodayQual[89] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[90] ="Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.";ThoughtForTodayQual[90] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book VIII. 558";ThoughtForTodayItem[91] ="Every man is the architect of his own fortune.";ThoughtForTodayQual[91] ="Appius Claudius Caecus<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[92] ="If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.";ThoughtForTodayQual[92] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[93] ="A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.";ThoughtForTodayQual[93] ="Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies";ThoughtForTodayItem[94] ="There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[94] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[95] ="A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than the giant himself.";ThoughtForTodayQual[95] ="Didacus Stella<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[96] ="Experto Credite. (Trust one who has proved it)";ThoughtForTodayQual[96] ="Virgil<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[97] ="Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.";ThoughtForTodayQual[97] ="Louise Lester<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[98] ="Belief prohibits learning.";ThoughtForTodayQual[98] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[99] ="Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.";ThoughtForTodayQual[99] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[100] ="Success is the most convincing talker in the world";ThoughtForTodayQual[100] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[101] ="Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.";ThoughtForTodayQual[101] ="Ambrose Bierce<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[102] ="Brevity is the soul of wit.";ThoughtForTodayQual[102] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[103] ="The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.";ThoughtForTodayQual[103] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[104] ="Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.";ThoughtForTodayQual[104] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Thoughts of Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[105] ="When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.";ThoughtForTodayQual[105] ="Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[106] ="Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?";ThoughtForTodayQual[106] ="Fernand Mery";ThoughtForTodayItem[107] ="Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.";ThoughtForTodayQual[107] ="Clive Barnes";ThoughtForTodayItem[108] ="Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. 'Hi,' Nigel read aloud, 'Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity.'";ThoughtForTodayQual[108] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>, Sourcery";ThoughtForTodayItem[109] ="When a small man casts a big shadow, the sun is setting.";ThoughtForTodayQual[109] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[110] ="The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.";ThoughtForTodayQual[110] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[111] ="Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.";ThoughtForTodayQual[111] ="Gene Brown";ThoughtForTodayItem[112] ="The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts";ThoughtForTodayQual[112] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[113] ="Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you";ThoughtForTodayQual[113] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[114] ="An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained";ThoughtForTodayQual[114] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[115] ="It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.";ThoughtForTodayQual[115] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, spoken by Huckleberry Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn";ThoughtForTodayItem[116] ="I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?' Death thought about it. 'Cats,' he said eventually, 'Cats are Nice.'";ThoughtForTodayQual[116] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>, Sourcery";ThoughtForTodayItem[117] ="It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.";ThoughtForTodayQual[117] ="Dr. Samuel Johnson<\/a>, in Boswell's Life (1770)";ThoughtForTodayItem[118] ="When any government . . . undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[118] ="Robert A. Heinlein<\/a>, If This Goes On...";ThoughtForTodayItem[119] ="The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command and contentment in His holy will and pleasure.";ThoughtForTodayQual[119] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[120] ="The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.";ThoughtForTodayQual[120] ="Greek proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[121] ="Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[121] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[122] ="Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people";ThoughtForTodayQual[122] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[123] ="Professor Goddard...does not know the relation of action and reaction, and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react";ThoughtForTodayQual[123] ="1921 New York Times<\/a> editorial about Robert Goddard<\/a>'s revolutionary rocket work.";ThoughtForTodayItem[124] ="No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.";ThoughtForTodayQual[124] ="Franz Schubert<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[125] ="'Well, in our country,' said Alice, panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' 'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'";ThoughtForTodayQual[125] ="Lewis Carroll<\/a>'s 'Through the looking glass'";ThoughtForTodayItem[126] ="All progress is the result of association and cooperation, while ruin is the outcome of animosity and hatred.";ThoughtForTodayQual[126] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[127] ="Anything you do can get you criticised, but not as much as doing nothing.";ThoughtForTodayQual[127] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[128] ="Retrace your steps, O My servants, and incline your hearts to Him Who is the Source of your creation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[128] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[129] ="So powerful is the light of Unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.";ThoughtForTodayQual[129] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[130] ="Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.";ThoughtForTodayQual[130] ="Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)";ThoughtForTodayItem[131] ="To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.";ThoughtForTodayQual[131] ="E. E. Cummings<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[132] ="All existence is dependent upon God, and from Him is derived the source of the sustenance of all things. This is what is meant by Divine Unity; this is its fundamental principle.";ThoughtForTodayQual[132] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[133] ="The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.";ThoughtForTodayQual[133] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[134] ="All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their entrances and exits; And one man in his time has many parts.";ThoughtForTodayQual[134] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[135] ="More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one";ThoughtForTodayQual[135] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[136] ="Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.";ThoughtForTodayQual[136] ="Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[137] ="O ye children of men, the fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race.";ThoughtForTodayQual[137] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[138] ="Will-power is soluble in alcohol.";ThoughtForTodayQual[138] ="Dr David Ashton, director of the UK Women's Heart Study for Imperial College School of Medicine in London - FT 5/1/2001";ThoughtForTodayItem[139] ="Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet.";ThoughtForTodayQual[139] ="Dave Barry<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[140] ="The only person who likes change is a wet baby";ThoughtForTodayQual[140] ="Peter de Jager";ThoughtForTodayItem[141] ="Planning is good. More planning is better. To much planning is a disaster.";ThoughtForTodayQual[141] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[142] ="You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[142] ="Booker T. Washington<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[143] ="Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.";ThoughtForTodayQual[143] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[144] ="The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[144] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[145] ="Murphy was an optimist.";ThoughtForTodayQual[145] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[146] ="The establishment of Universal Peace is not possible save through the power of the Word of God.";ThoughtForTodayQual[146] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[147] ="People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.";ThoughtForTodayQual[147] ="Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/a>, Cat's Cradle";ThoughtForTodayItem[148] ="Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.";ThoughtForTodayQual[148] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[149] ="Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.";ThoughtForTodayQual[149] ="Groucho Marx<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[150] ="A victorious army seeks its victories before seeking battle. An army destined to defeat fights in the hope of winning.";ThoughtForTodayQual[150] ="Sun Tzu<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[151] ="Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)";ThoughtForTodayQual[151] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[152] ="When a thought of war comes oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love.";ThoughtForTodayQual[152] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[153] ="Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place";ThoughtForTodayQual[153] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[154] ="Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity";ThoughtForTodayQual[154] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[155] ="An inch of gold won't buy an inch of time.";ThoughtForTodayQual[155] ="Chinese proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[156] ="Do not allow differences of opinion or diversity of thought to separate you from your fellow men, or to be the cause of dispute, hatred and strife in your hearts.";ThoughtForTodayQual[156] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[157] ="Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.";ThoughtForTodayQual[157] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[158] ="Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[158] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[159] ="They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.";ThoughtForTodayQual[159] ="Benjamin Franklin<\/a>, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759";ThoughtForTodayItem[160] ="Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.'";ThoughtForTodayQual[160] ="Lord Kelvin<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[161] ="I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.";ThoughtForTodayQual[161] ="Jimi Hendrix<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[162] ="It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.";ThoughtForTodayQual[162] ="John Andrew Holmes";ThoughtForTodayItem[163] ="By the time the future is easy to predict its history!";ThoughtForTodayQual[163] ="Peter de Jager";ThoughtForTodayItem[164] ="According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.";ThoughtForTodayQual[164] ="Jerry Seinfeld";ThoughtForTodayItem[165] ="Four brave men who do not know each other will not dare attack a lion. Four less brave, but knowing each other well, sure of their reliability and consequently of mutual aid, will attack resolutely.";ThoughtForTodayQual[165] ="Ardant du Picq<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[166] ="The Divine purpose is that men should live in unity, concord and agreement.";ThoughtForTodayQual[166] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[167] ="The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.";ThoughtForTodayQual[167] ="Thomas Jefferson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[168] ="It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.";ThoughtForTodayQual[168] ="Harry S. Truman<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[169] ="If I had eight hours to fell a tree, I'd spent four hours sharpening my axe.";ThoughtForTodayQual[169] ="Abraham Lincoln<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[170] ="Ability is nothing without opportunity";ThoughtForTodayQual[170] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[171] ="Kiss the feet of Popes, provided their hands are tied";ThoughtForTodayQual[171] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[172] ="Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[172] ="Dave Barry<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[173] =". . .that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone.";ThoughtForTodayQual[173] ="Barbara Hambly<\/a>, Spoken by John Aversin, Dragonsbane";ThoughtForTodayItem[174] ="Efficiency is intelligent laziness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[174] ="David Dunham";ThoughtForTodayItem[175] ="God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.";ThoughtForTodayQual[175] ="Reinhold Niebuhr<\/a>, The Serenity Prayer (1934)";ThoughtForTodayItem[176] ="Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.";ThoughtForTodayQual[176] ="Frank Herbert<\/a>, Dune";ThoughtForTodayItem[177] ="Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety";ThoughtForTodayQual[177] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[178] ="Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.";ThoughtForTodayQual[178] ="Antoine de Saint Exupéry<\/a>, Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)";ThoughtForTodayItem[179] ="There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.";ThoughtForTodayQual[179] ="Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[180] ="How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.";ThoughtForTodayQual[180] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[181] ="Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old";ThoughtForTodayQual[181] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[182] ="Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.";ThoughtForTodayQual[182] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[183] ="I share no man's opinions; I have my own.";ThoughtForTodayQual[183] ="Ivan Turgenev";ThoughtForTodayItem[184] ="I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.";ThoughtForTodayQual[184] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854), II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For";ThoughtForTodayItem[185] ="The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know";ThoughtForTodayQual[185] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[186] ="A good sketch is better than a long speech";ThoughtForTodayQual[186] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[187] ="Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Space is what prevents everything from happening to me.";ThoughtForTodayQual[187] ="Attributed to John Archibald Wheeler<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[188] ="The easy way is always a dead end.";ThoughtForTodayQual[188] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[189] ="To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman";ThoughtForTodayQual[189] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[190] ="If you want truly to understand something, try to change it";ThoughtForTodayQual[190] ="Kurt Lewin";ThoughtForTodayItem[191] ="Those virtues that befit [man's] dignity are forbearance, mercy, compassion and loving kindness towards all the peoples and kindreds of the earth.";ThoughtForTodayQual[191] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[192] ="All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[192] ="Buddhist<\/a> chant";ThoughtForTodayItem[193] ="He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.";ThoughtForTodayQual[193] ="Thomas Paine<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[194] ="Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.";ThoughtForTodayQual[194] ="George Washington<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[195] ="In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.";ThoughtForTodayQual[195] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>, opening line of The Hobbit";ThoughtForTodayItem[196] ="The world was not left to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children";ThoughtForTodayQual[196] ="African proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[197] ="I am become death, shatterer of worlds.";ThoughtForTodayQual[197] ="J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion";ThoughtForTodayItem[198] ="Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.";ThoughtForTodayQual[198] ="John J. Miller, And Hope to Die (in Jokertown Shuffle Wild Cards IX)";ThoughtForTodayItem[199] ="It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost ...";ThoughtForTodayQual[199] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[200] ="When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[200] ="Jonathan Swift<\/a>, Thoughts on Various Subjects";ThoughtForTodayItem[201] ="If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[201] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[202] ="If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain";ThoughtForTodayQual[202] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[203] ="Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty.";ThoughtForTodayQual[203] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[204] ="Man is the supreme Talisman. Lack of a proper education hath, however, deprived him of that which he doth inherently possess.";ThoughtForTodayQual[204] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[205] ="One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.";ThoughtForTodayQual[205] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[206] ="Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.";ThoughtForTodayQual[206] ="Lewis Lapham";ThoughtForTodayItem[207] ="Behold the warranty - the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.";ThoughtForTodayQual[207] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[208] ="The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [...] No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history.";ThoughtForTodayQual[208] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[209] ="Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. That or nothing. I realized that what I'm looking for is not what you're looking for. You don't want what I want.";ThoughtForTodayQual[209] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Spoken by Leslie Parrish and Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[210] ="The world is in greatest need of international peace. Until it is established, mankind will not attain composure and tranquillity.";ThoughtForTodayQual[210] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[211] ="All that is gold does not glitter,";ThoughtForTodayQual[211] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[212] ="In a mad world, only the mad are sane.";ThoughtForTodayQual[212] ="Akira Kurosawa<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[213] ="Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time";ThoughtForTodayQual[213] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>, in reference to his impending imprisonment on St. Helena";ThoughtForTodayItem[214] ="I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.";ThoughtForTodayQual[214] ="Javan";ThoughtForTodayItem[215] ="For the things we have to learn before we can do them...We learn by doing them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[215] ="Aristotle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[216] ="They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.";ThoughtForTodayQual[216] ="Andy Warhol<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[217] ="Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.";ThoughtForTodayQual[217] ="Editorial in The Boston Post<\/a>, 1865.";ThoughtForTodayItem[218] ="Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.";ThoughtForTodayQual[218] ="Dr. Samuel Johnson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[219] ="Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle this warring world.";ThoughtForTodayQual[219] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[220] ="There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience";ThoughtForTodayQual[220] ="Alexander Gregg<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[221] ="The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[221] ="Joseph Conrad<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[222] ="The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.";ThoughtForTodayQual[222] ="Bertrand Russell<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[223] ="A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words";ThoughtForTodayQual[223] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[224] ="The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.";ThoughtForTodayQual[224] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, What Is Man? (1906)";ThoughtForTodayItem[225] ="Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.";ThoughtForTodayQual[225] ="Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>, Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear";ThoughtForTodayItem[226] ="If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.";ThoughtForTodayQual[226] ="Isaac Newton<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[227] ="All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.";ThoughtForTodayQual[227] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[228] ="In order to find Truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room for the water of life.";ThoughtForTodayQual[228] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[229] ="Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set";ThoughtForTodayQual[229] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[230] ="I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all the thoughts of your heart on love and unity. Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship and happiness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[230] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[231] ="There's only us, there's only this.";ThoughtForTodayQual[231] ="RENT, Jonathan Larson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[232] ="If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.";ThoughtForTodayQual[232] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[233] ="Necessity, who is the mother of invention.";ThoughtForTodayQual[233] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book II. 369C";ThoughtForTodayItem[234] ="The most important thing in life is not to capitalise on your successes - any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.";ThoughtForTodayQual[234] ="William Bolitho, from 'Twelve against the Gods'";ThoughtForTodayItem[235] ="The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?";ThoughtForTodayQual[235] ="David Sarnoff<\/a>'s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.";ThoughtForTodayItem[236] ="Imagination, not intelligence, made us human";ThoughtForTodayQual[236] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[237] ="Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.";ThoughtForTodayQual[237] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[238] ="Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.";ThoughtForTodayQual[238] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[239] ="The problems that we have created cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[239] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[240] ="We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.";ThoughtForTodayQual[240] ="Larry Wall";ThoughtForTodayItem[241] ="If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse....I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.";ThoughtForTodayQual[241] ="Ayn Rand<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[242] ="Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?";ThoughtForTodayQual[242] ="Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[243] ="We must be the change we wish to see in the world";ThoughtForTodayQual[243] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[244] ="Never forget that the equipment was made by the lowest bidder.";ThoughtForTodayQual[244] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[245] ="All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.";ThoughtForTodayQual[245] ="Thomas Paine<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[246] ="I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.";ThoughtForTodayQual[246] ="Woodrow Wilson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[247] ="When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.";ThoughtForTodayQual[247] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>, opening line of The Fellowship of the Ring";ThoughtForTodayItem[248] ="That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.";ThoughtForTodayQual[248] ="Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[249] ="Humour is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.";ThoughtForTodayQual[249] ="Irvin S. Cobb";ThoughtForTodayItem[250] ="If we all wrote in plain English how much easier - and efficient - life would be. It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of good Government.";ThoughtForTodayQual[250] ="Baroness Thatcher<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[251] ="Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.";ThoughtForTodayQual[251] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book VII. 529";ThoughtForTodayItem[252] ="Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.";ThoughtForTodayQual[252] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[253] ="Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.";ThoughtForTodayQual[253] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[254] ="An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.";ThoughtForTodayQual[254] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[255] ="O you Gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts and snatch them straight away!";ThoughtForTodayQual[255] ="Pericles<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[256] ="All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.";ThoughtForTodayQual[256] ="Leo Tolstoy<\/a>, opening line of Anna Karenina";ThoughtForTodayItem[257] ="The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.";ThoughtForTodayQual[257] ="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[258] ="You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty";ThoughtForTodayQual[258] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[259] ="Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.";ThoughtForTodayQual[259] ="Goethe";ThoughtForTodayItem[260] ="Everybody can get angry - that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way - that's hard.";ThoughtForTodayQual[260] ="Aristotle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[261] ="Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.";ThoughtForTodayQual[261] ="Anne Morrow Lindbergh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[262] ="What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.";ThoughtForTodayQual[262] ="William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways";ThoughtForTodayItem[263] ="The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.";ThoughtForTodayQual[263] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[264] ="People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives.";ThoughtForTodayQual[264] ="Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[265] ="I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.";ThoughtForTodayQual[265] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854),V, Solitude";ThoughtForTodayItem[266] ="What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!";ThoughtForTodayQual[266] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>, spoken by Hamlet, Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii";ThoughtForTodayItem[267] ="Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.";ThoughtForTodayQual[267] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[268] ="In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man, and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy - and gladness unto him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[268] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[269] ="Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.";ThoughtForTodayQual[269] ="Horace Mann<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[270] ="Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.";ThoughtForTodayQual[270] ="Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)";ThoughtForTodayItem[271] ="Until all these barriers erected by prejudice are swept away, it is not possible for humanity to be at peace.";ThoughtForTodayQual[271] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[272] ="One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws";ThoughtForTodayQual[272] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)";ThoughtForTodayItem[273] ="Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.";ThoughtForTodayQual[273] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[274] ="A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.";ThoughtForTodayQual[274] ="Harvey Mackay)";ThoughtForTodayItem[275] ="I can resist everything except temptation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[275] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[276] ="Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.";ThoughtForTodayQual[276] ="B. F. Skinner<\/a>, Beyond Freedom and Dignity";ThoughtForTodayItem[277] ="Constructive criticism usually isn't.";ThoughtForTodayQual[277] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[278] ="The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted be His Glory, and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of His Divine Manifestations.";ThoughtForTodayQual[278] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[279] ="No matter how much material civilisation advances, it cannot attain to perfection except through the uplift of spiritual civilisation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[279] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[280] ="Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.";ThoughtForTodayQual[280] ="Seneca";ThoughtForTodayItem[281] ="The purpose of justice is the appearance of unity among men.";ThoughtForTodayQual[281] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[282] ="If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.";ThoughtForTodayQual[282] ="Vincent van Gogh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[283] ="Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.";ThoughtForTodayQual[283] ="Bertrand Russell<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[284] ="People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.";ThoughtForTodayQual[284] ="Frank Herbert<\/a>, Dune";ThoughtForTodayItem[285] ="I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.";ThoughtForTodayQual[285] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[286] ="Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out";ThoughtForTodayQual[286] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[287] ="That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.";ThoughtForTodayQual[287] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, note written by Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[288] ="I have travelled the length and breadth of this country, and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.";ThoughtForTodayQual[288] ="The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall<\/a>, 1957";ThoughtForTodayItem[289] ="What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon";ThoughtForTodayQual[289] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[290] ="In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.";ThoughtForTodayQual[290] ="Shunryu Suzuki";ThoughtForTodayItem[291] ="O contending peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set your faces towards unity and let the radiance of its light shine upon you.";ThoughtForTodayQual[291] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[292] ="We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly we shall all hang separately.";ThoughtForTodayQual[292] ="Said by Benjamin Franklin<\/a> at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776";ThoughtForTodayItem[293] ="The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.";ThoughtForTodayQual[293] ="Joseph Heller<\/a>, Catch22";ThoughtForTodayItem[294] ="Abiding peace is theirs who choose goodness for its own sake - without expectation of any reward";ThoughtForTodayQual[294] ="Zoroastrian<\/a> Scripture";ThoughtForTodayItem[295] ="A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.";ThoughtForTodayQual[295] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[296] ="I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.";ThoughtForTodayQual[296] ="Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>, Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear";ThoughtForTodayItem[297] ="The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.";ThoughtForTodayQual[297] ="Theodore H. White";ThoughtForTodayItem[298] ="If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.";ThoughtForTodayQual[298] ="Victor O'Reilly, Games of the Hangman";ThoughtForTodayItem[299] ="Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.";ThoughtForTodayQual[299] ="William Pitt the Younger<\/a>, speech on the India Bill 18 November 1783";ThoughtForTodayItem[300] ="If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.";ThoughtForTodayQual[300] ="Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[301] ="We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.";ThoughtForTodayQual[301] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[302] ="Light is the task where many share the toil.";ThoughtForTodayQual[302] ="Homer<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[303] ="It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[303] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[304] ="There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear] energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.";ThoughtForTodayQual[304] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>, 1932.";ThoughtForTodayItem[305] ="Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.";ThoughtForTodayQual[305] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854),I,Economy";ThoughtForTodayItem[306] ="That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.";ThoughtForTodayQual[306] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Thoughts of Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[307] ="It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important.";ThoughtForTodayQual[307] ="Ursula K. Le Guin, spoken by Gaverel Rocannon, Rocannon's World";ThoughtForTodayItem[308] ="Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?";ThoughtForTodayQual[308] ="Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Brothers Pictures, about 1927.";ThoughtForTodayItem[309] ="If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.";ThoughtForTodayQual[309] ="John Galsworthy";ThoughtForTodayItem[310] ="Know ye, verily, that the happiness of mankind lieth in the unity and the harmony of the human race, and that spiritual and material developments are conditioned upon love and unity among all men.";ThoughtForTodayQual[310] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[311] ="True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice";ThoughtForTodayQual[311] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[312] ="Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.";ThoughtForTodayQual[312] ="B. C. Forbes<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[313] ="The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[313] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854), III, Reading";ThoughtForTodayItem[314] ="Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!";ThoughtForTodayQual[314] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[315] ="I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.";ThoughtForTodayQual[315] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[316] ="Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time";ThoughtForTodayQual[316] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[317] ="Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.";ThoughtForTodayQual[317] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, Thoughts of Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[318] ="Money often costs too much.";ThoughtForTodayQual[318] ="Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[319] ="Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary";ThoughtForTodayQual[319] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[320] ="Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours";ThoughtForTodayQual[320] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>, in a letter written from St. Helena, 28 August 1817";ThoughtForTodayItem[321] ="Nothing endures but change.";ThoughtForTodayQual[321] ="Heraclitus of Ephesus<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[322] ="If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[322] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[323] ="Take nobody else's word that a gun isn't loaded.";ThoughtForTodayQual[323] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[324] ="Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[324] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[325] ="Training in morals and good conduct is far more important than book learning.";ThoughtForTodayQual[325] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[326] ="Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them";ThoughtForTodayQual[326] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[327] ="The purpose of God in creating man hath been and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence.";ThoughtForTodayQual[327] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[328] ="Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.";ThoughtForTodayQual[328] ="Reinhold Niebuhr<\/a>, The Serenity Prayer (1934)";ThoughtForTodayItem[329] ="One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.";ThoughtForTodayQual[329] ="The Impossible Dream";ThoughtForTodayItem[330] ="Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.";ThoughtForTodayQual[330] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[331] ="Plans are nothing. Planning is everything";ThoughtForTodayQual[331] ="Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[332] ="To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.";ThoughtForTodayQual[332] ="Saddi";ThoughtForTodayItem[333] ="If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then?";ThoughtForTodayQual[333] ="Douglas Adams<\/a>, spoken by the Electric Monk, Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency";ThoughtForTodayItem[334] ="I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.";ThoughtForTodayQual[334] ="Dudley Field Malone";ThoughtForTodayItem[335] ="What do you despise? By this are you truly known.";ThoughtForTodayQual[335] ="Frank Herbert<\/a>, Dune, Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irulan";ThoughtForTodayItem[336] ="The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.";ThoughtForTodayQual[336] ="Alan Patrick Herbert<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[337] ="To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.";ThoughtForTodayQual[337] ="Leonard Bernstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[338] ="Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.";ThoughtForTodayQual[338] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[339] ="What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.";ThoughtForTodayQual[339] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[340] ="Whoso cleaveth to justice can, under no circumstances, transgress the limits of moderation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[340] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[341] ="Wear the old coat and buy the new book.";ThoughtForTodayQual[341] ="Austin Phelps<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[342] ="To change, and to change for the better, are two different things";ThoughtForTodayQual[342] ="German proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[343] ="If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.
But;
If when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.
This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.";ThoughtForTodayQual[343] ="Noah S. 'Soggy' Sweat, Jr<\/a>, 'Whiskey Speech' (1952)";ThoughtForTodayItem[344] ="Time spent with cats is never wasted.";ThoughtForTodayQual[344] ="Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[345] ="If the reality underlying religious teaching be investigated, all religions would be unified and the purpose of God, which is love and the blending of human hearts, would be accomplished.";ThoughtForTodayQual[345] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[346] ="Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can alone cause it to reveal its treasures and enable mankind to benefit therefrom.";ThoughtForTodayQual[346] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[347] ="Most people don't learn from experience - especially not their own.";ThoughtForTodayQual[347] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[348] ="Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.";ThoughtForTodayQual[348] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>, Cassius to Brutus, Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene ii";ThoughtForTodayItem[349] ="In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred";ThoughtForTodayQual[349] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>, I Have A Dream (1963)";ThoughtForTodayItem[350] ="Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods";ThoughtForTodayQual[350] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[351] ="I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future";ThoughtForTodayQual[351] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[352] ="Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.";ThoughtForTodayQual[352] ="Robert A. Heinlein<\/a>, opening line of Stranger in a Strange Land";ThoughtForTodayItem[353] ="Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.";ThoughtForTodayQual[353] ="Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden";ThoughtForTodayItem[354] ="Never take a fence down until you know why it was put up";ThoughtForTodayQual[354] ="Robert Frost<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[355] ="The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.";ThoughtForTodayQual[355] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854),I,Economy";ThoughtForTodayItem[356] ="I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.";ThoughtForTodayQual[356] ="Frank Herbert<\/a>, Dune, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear";ThoughtForTodayItem[357] ="Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.";ThoughtForTodayQual[357] ="Dinah Shore<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[358] ="640K ought to be enough for anybody.";ThoughtForTodayQual[358] ="Attributed to Bill Gates<\/a>, 1981.";ThoughtForTodayItem[359] ="Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.'";ThoughtForTodayQual[359] ="Gary Cooper<\/a> commenting on Clark Gable<\/a>'s acceptance of the role of Rhett Butler after Cooper had turned it down, 1938.";ThoughtForTodayItem[360] ="To err is human, to forgive divine.";ThoughtForTodayQual[360] ="Alexander Pope<\/a>, An Essay on Criticism";ThoughtForTodayItem[361] ="Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.";ThoughtForTodayQual[361] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)";ThoughtForTodayItem[362] ="Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.";ThoughtForTodayQual[362] ="Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[363] ="The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.";ThoughtForTodayQual[363] ="Winston Churchill<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[364] ="Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[364] ="Gautama Buddha<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[365] ="Things that must be together to work are always transported individually.";ThoughtForTodayQual[365] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[366] ="The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.";ThoughtForTodayQual[366] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[367] ="The whole duty if man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[367] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[368] ="The red herring you are ignoring is the key point of the assignment.";ThoughtForTodayQual[368] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[369] ="It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.";ThoughtForTodayQual[369] ="Harry S. Truman<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[370] ="Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues.";ThoughtForTodayQual[370] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[371] ="It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.";ThoughtForTodayQual[371] ="Niccolò Machiavelli<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[372] ="In wildness is the preservation of the world.";ThoughtForTodayQual[372] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walking(1862)";ThoughtForTodayItem[373] ="The fundamental basis of all religion is one - the essence of religion is human fellowship.";ThoughtForTodayQual[373] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[374] ="I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.";ThoughtForTodayQual[374] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[375] ="No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.";ThoughtForTodayQual[375] ="Heraclitus of Ephesus<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[376] ="We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live.";ThoughtForTodayQual[376] ="Richard Bach<\/a>, spoken by Leslie Parrish The Bridge Across Forever";ThoughtForTodayItem[377] ="O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.";ThoughtForTodayQual[377] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[378] ="This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.";ThoughtForTodayQual[378] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>, Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii";ThoughtForTodayItem[379] ="Human brotherhood and dependence exist because mutual helpfulness and cooperation are the two necessary principles underlying human welfare.";ThoughtForTodayQual[379] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[380] ="Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.";ThoughtForTodayQual[380] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[381] ="We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.";ThoughtForTodayQual[381] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[382] ="Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.";ThoughtForTodayQual[382] ="Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book";ThoughtForTodayItem[383] ="I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.";ThoughtForTodayQual[383] ="E. M. Forster<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[384] ="Constants aren't, variables won't.";ThoughtForTodayQual[384] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[385] ="Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.";ThoughtForTodayQual[385] ="Henry Ward Beecher";ThoughtForTodayItem[386] ="Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.";ThoughtForTodayQual[386] ="Jeff Valdez";ThoughtForTodayItem[387] ="Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.";ThoughtForTodayQual[387] ="Ambrose Bierce<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[388] ="The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.";ThoughtForTodayQual[388] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[389] ="It is the wish of our Heavenly Father that every heart should rejoice and be filled with happiness, that we should live together in felicity and joy.";ThoughtForTodayQual[389] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[390] ="If you are keeping your head while others around you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the whole situation";ThoughtForTodayQual[390] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[391] ="Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true";ThoughtForTodayQual[391] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[392] ="The essence of all that We have revealed for thee is Justice, is for man to free himself from idle fancies and imitation, discern with the eye of oneness His glorious handiwork and look into all things with a searching eye.";ThoughtForTodayQual[392] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[393] ="Don't argue with the weather.";ThoughtForTodayQual[393] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[394] ="I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.";ThoughtForTodayQual[394] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[395] ="Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.";ThoughtForTodayQual[395] ="Warren Buffet<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[396] ="Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.";ThoughtForTodayQual[396] ="Groucho Marx<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[397] ="We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.";ThoughtForTodayQual[397] ="Jeff Marder";ThoughtForTodayItem[398] ="There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.";ThoughtForTodayQual[398] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[399] ="Man should know his own self and recognise that which leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory or abasement, wealth or poverty.";ThoughtForTodayQual[399] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[400] ="I keep six honest serving-men, They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.";ThoughtForTodayQual[400] ="Rudyard Kipling<\/a>, from 'Just So Stories', 1902.";ThoughtForTodayItem[401] ="It does not do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.";ThoughtForTodayQual[401] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[402] ="Our patience will achieve more than our force";ThoughtForTodayQual[402] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[403] ="I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.";ThoughtForTodayQual[403] ="Woody Allen<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[404] ="Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.";ThoughtForTodayQual[404] ="Franz Schubert<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[405] ="If you are keeping your head while others around you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the whole situation";ThoughtForTodayQual[405] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[406] ="Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.";ThoughtForTodayQual[406] ="Ayn Rand<\/a>, The Fountainhead (1943)";ThoughtForTodayItem[407] ="The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.";ThoughtForTodayQual[407] ="Oscar Wilde<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[408] ="I wanted a perfect ending ... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.";ThoughtForTodayQual[408] ="Gilda Radner";ThoughtForTodayItem[409] ="Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary";ThoughtForTodayQual[409] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[410] ="It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.";ThoughtForTodayQual[410] ="Winston Churchill<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[411] ="Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.";ThoughtForTodayQual[411] ="W. Somerset Maugham<\/a>, The Summing Up, 1938";ThoughtForTodayItem[412] ="I praise loudly. I blame softly.";ThoughtForTodayQual[412] ="Catherine II of Russia (\"Catherine the Great\")<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[413] ="I think there is a world market for about five computers.";ThoughtForTodayQual[413] ="Attributed to Thomas J. Watson<\/a>, chairman of IBM, 1943";ThoughtForTodayItem[414] ="Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[414] ="Chinese proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[415] ="This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.";ThoughtForTodayQual[415] ="Western Union Company<\/a> internal memo, 1876.";ThoughtForTodayItem[416] ="His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.";ThoughtForTodayQual[416] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>, The Hobbit, referring to The Last Homely House";ThoughtForTodayItem[417] ="I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace";ThoughtForTodayQual[417] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[418] ="In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.";ThoughtForTodayQual[418] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[419] ="As you get better at a thing, it gets less interesting.";ThoughtForTodayQual[419] ="Jim Slater";ThoughtForTodayItem[420] ="Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.";ThoughtForTodayQual[420] ="Jack London<\/a>, opening line of The Call of the Wild";ThoughtForTodayItem[421] ="No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.";ThoughtForTodayQual[421] ="William Penn<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[422] ="All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.";ThoughtForTodayQual[422] ="Simon and Garfunkel<\/a>, The Boxer";ThoughtForTodayItem[423] ="The source of courage and power is the promotion of the Word of God and steadfastness in His love.";ThoughtForTodayQual[423] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[424] ="There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.";ThoughtForTodayQual[424] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[425] ="Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse";ThoughtForTodayQual[425] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[426] ="On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't always do anything about them, but at least they got heard, and he nodded a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This is politics";ThoughtForTodayQual[426] ="Terry Pratchett<\/a>, The Carpet People";ThoughtForTodayItem[427] ="Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.";ThoughtForTodayQual[427] ="Dylan Thomas<\/a>, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night";ThoughtForTodayItem[428] =". . .he had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.";ThoughtForTodayQual[428] ="Roland Huntford, SCOTT and AMUNDSEN The Race to The South Pole referring to polar explorer Roald Amundsen.";ThoughtForTodayItem[429] ="Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[429] ="Albert Einstein<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[430] ="What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.";ThoughtForTodayQual[430] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book X. 601B";ThoughtForTodayItem[431] ="He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.";ThoughtForTodayQual[431] ="Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[432] ="Women are nothing but machines for producing children";ThoughtForTodayQual[432] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[433] ="The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion";ThoughtForTodayQual[433] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[434] ="All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilisation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[434] ="Bahá’u’lláh<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[435] ="Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, 'a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.' Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.";ThoughtForTodayQual[435] ="J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a>, The Fellowship of the Ring";ThoughtForTodayItem[436] ="If things are to stay the same around here. . . something has to Change!";ThoughtForTodayQual[436] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[437] ="Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment";ThoughtForTodayQual[437] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[438] ="It is appropriate and befitting that in this illumined age- the age of progress of the world of humanity - we should be self sacrificing and should serve the human race.";ThoughtForTodayQual[438] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[439] ="She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.";ThoughtForTodayQual[439] ="Groucho Marx<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[440] ="The chameleon changes colour to match the earth. The earth does not change colour to match the chameleon";ThoughtForTodayQual[440] ="Senegalese proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[441] ="What should it profit a man if he would gain the whole world yet lose his soul.";ThoughtForTodayQual[441] ="The Holy Bible<\/a>, Mark 8:36";ThoughtForTodayItem[442] ="Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.";ThoughtForTodayQual[442] ="Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[443] ="I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.";ThoughtForTodayQual[443] ="Groucho Marx<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[444] ="All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others";ThoughtForTodayQual[444] ="George Orwell<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[445] ="You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'";ThoughtForTodayQual[445] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[446] ="Don't fight forces; Use them!";ThoughtForTodayQual[446] ="Richard Buckminster \"Bucky\" Fuller <\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[447] ="Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[447] ="Lao Tzu<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[448] ="The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.";ThoughtForTodayQual[448] ="Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5: Believers";ThoughtForTodayItem[449] ="It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err";ThoughtForTodayQual[449] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[450] ="Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.";ThoughtForTodayQual[450] ="Thomas Edison<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[451] ="Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.";ThoughtForTodayQual[451] ="Henri-Frederic Amiel";ThoughtForTodayItem[452] ="Let him who would move the world, first move himself";ThoughtForTodayQual[452] ="Socrates<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[453] ="The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.";ThoughtForTodayQual[453] ="A Yale University<\/a> management professor in response to Fred Smith<\/a>'s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express [now FedEx Corporation]<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[454] ="Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.";ThoughtForTodayQual[454] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists: The Golden Rule";ThoughtForTodayItem[455] ="The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.";ThoughtForTodayQual[455] ="Victor Hugo<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[456] ="The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reacheth the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go.";ThoughtForTodayQual[456] ="Egyptian proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[457] ="The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyrrany known to the mind of man.";ThoughtForTodayQual[457] ="Thomas Jefferson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[458] ="The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting";ThoughtForTodayQual[458] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[459] ="The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.";ThoughtForTodayQual[459] ="Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, later appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1837.";ThoughtForTodayItem[460] ="All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.";ThoughtForTodayQual[460] ="Stendhal";ThoughtForTodayItem[461] ="Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.";ThoughtForTodayQual[461] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[462] ="If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.";ThoughtForTodayQual[462] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[463] ="Time is money.";ThoughtForTodayQual[463] ="Benjamin Franklin<\/a>, Advice to Young Tradesmen (1748)";ThoughtForTodayItem[464] ="Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.";ThoughtForTodayQual[464] ="Thomas Jefferson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[465] ="Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.";ThoughtForTodayQual[465] ="Bertrand Russell<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[466] ="The Human Brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public!";ThoughtForTodayQual[466] ="George Jessel<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[467] ="It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.";ThoughtForTodayQual[467] ="Charles Dickens<\/a>, end of A Tale of Two Cities";ThoughtForTodayItem[468] ="The beginning is the most important part of the work.";ThoughtForTodayQual[468] ="Plato<\/a>, The Republic. Book II. 377B";ThoughtForTodayItem[469] ="The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.";ThoughtForTodayQual[469] ="Justice Anthony Kennedy";ThoughtForTodayItem[470] ="It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.";ThoughtForTodayQual[470] ="H. L. Mencken<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[471] ="If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.";ThoughtForTodayQual[471] ="Alfred North Whitehead<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[472] ="What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.";ThoughtForTodayQual[472] ="Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[473] ="Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it";ThoughtForTodayQual[473] ="Edmund Hillary<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[474] ="Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.";ThoughtForTodayQual[474] ="H.G. Wells<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[475] ="Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.";ThoughtForTodayQual[475] ="John Milton<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[476] ="Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody but unbowed . . . . . It matters not how strait the gait, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.";ThoughtForTodayQual[476] ="W. E. Henley<\/a>, from 'Invictus'";ThoughtForTodayItem[477] ="A hungry man is not a free man";ThoughtForTodayQual[477] ="Adlai Stevenson<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[478] ="Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.";ThoughtForTodayQual[478] ="Will Rogers";ThoughtForTodayItem[479] ="Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.";ThoughtForTodayQual[479] ="John Steinbeck<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[480] ="There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer. Prayer is conversation with God.";ThoughtForTodayQual[480] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[481] ="There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.";ThoughtForTodayQual[481] ="Ken Olson<\/a>, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation<\/a>, 1977";ThoughtForTodayItem[482] ="From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step";ThoughtForTodayQual[482] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[483] ="Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.";ThoughtForTodayQual[483] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[484] ="Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that";ThoughtForTodayQual[484] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[485] ="Nurture your mind with great thought, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.";ThoughtForTodayQual[485] ="Benjamin Disraeli<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[486] ="You can never plan the future by the past";ThoughtForTodayQual[486] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[487] ="Service to humanity is service to God.";ThoughtForTodayQual[487] ="‘Abdu’l-Bahá<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[488] ="A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people";ThoughtForTodayQual[488] ="Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[489] =". . .hummings and clickings could be heard--the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.";ThoughtForTodayQual[489] ="Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/a>, Player Piano";ThoughtForTodayItem[490] ="Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.";ThoughtForTodayQual[490] ="Reinhold Niebuhr<\/a>, The Serenity Prayer (1934)";ThoughtForTodayItem[491] ="There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.";ThoughtForTodayQual[491] ="William Shakespeare<\/a>, Brutus to Cassius, Julius Caesar, Act 4 Scene iii";ThoughtForTodayItem[492] ="Behind an able man there are always other able men.";ThoughtForTodayQual[492] ="Chinese proverb";ThoughtForTodayItem[493] ="Since when is 'public safety' the root password to the Constitution?";ThoughtForTodayQual[493] ="C. D. Tavares";ThoughtForTodayItem[494] ="And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them";ThoughtForTodayQual[494] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[495] ="Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.";ThoughtForTodayQual[495] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, Notebooks (1935)";ThoughtForTodayItem[496] ="Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.";ThoughtForTodayQual[496] ="Bertrand Russell<\/a>, Autobiography";ThoughtForTodayItem[497] ="Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.";ThoughtForTodayQual[497] ="S. Weir Mitchell";ThoughtForTodayItem[498] ="We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.";ThoughtForTodayQual[498] ="Marcus Aurelius Antoninus<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[499] ="I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.";ThoughtForTodayQual[499] ="Thomas Paine<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[500] ="We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation";ThoughtForTodayQual[500] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[501] ="Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.";ThoughtForTodayQual[501] ="George Bernard Shaw<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[502] ="I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.";ThoughtForTodayQual[502] ="Galileo Galilei<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[503] ="The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.";ThoughtForTodayQual[503] ="Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, Walden(1854),I,Economy";ThoughtForTodayItem[504] ="Strive that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers.";ThoughtForTodayQual[504] ="Bahá’í Scripture<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[505] ="The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.";ThoughtForTodayQual[505] ="Winston Churchill<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[506] ="The future will be better tomorrow";ThoughtForTodayQual[506] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[507] ="It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.";ThoughtForTodayQual[507] ="Mark Twain<\/a>, from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)";ThoughtForTodayItem[508] ="Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.";ThoughtForTodayQual[508] ="Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[509] ="The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[509] ="Mark Twain<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[510] ="The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.";ThoughtForTodayQual[510] ="Louise Lester<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[511] ="TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More";ThoughtForTodayQual[511] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[512] ="Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.";ThoughtForTodayQual[512] ="Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[513] ="If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings out now to struggle.";ThoughtForTodayQual[513] ="William Morris<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[514] ="Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs";ThoughtForTodayQual[514] ="Mohandas Gandhi<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[515] ="Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.";ThoughtForTodayQual[515] ="Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 (not verified in Cerf and Navasky).";ThoughtForTodayItem[516] ="To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men";ThoughtForTodayQual[516] ="Edmund Burke<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[517] ="I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements";ThoughtForTodayQual[517] ="James Danforth \"Dan\" Quayle<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[518] ="If you are short of everything except problems, you are a project manager.";ThoughtForTodayQual[518] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[519] ="I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.";ThoughtForTodayQual[519] ="Samuel Beckett<\/a>, The Unnameable";ThoughtForTodayItem[520] ="The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.'";ThoughtForTodayQual[520] ="James Taylor<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[521] ="With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.";ThoughtForTodayQual[521] ="Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, The Drumhead";ThoughtForTodayItem[522] ="The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.";ThoughtForTodayQual[522] ="Harold R. McAlindon";ThoughtForTodayItem[523] ="Planning is good. More planning is better. To much planning is a disaster.";ThoughtForTodayQual[523] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[524] ="I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt. ";ThoughtForTodayQual[524] ="Sir George Jessel<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[525] ="Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it";ThoughtForTodayQual[525] ="Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[526] ="He who thinks he leads, and has no one following him, is only taking a walk";ThoughtForTodayQual[526] ="Anon";ThoughtForTodayItem[527] ="The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be";ThoughtForTodayQual[527] ="Katherine Mansfield<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[528] ="You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals";ThoughtForTodayQual[528] ="Edmund Hillary<\/a>";ThoughtForTodayItem[529] ="In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - the job's a game!";ThoughtForTodayQual[529] ="Mary Poppins<\/a>";var ThoughtForTodayp = ThoughtForTodayItem.length;var ThoughtForTodaydate = new Date();var ThoughtForTodaydnum = Math.floor(ThoughtForTodaydate.valueOf() / 86400000) % ThoughtForTodayp;document.writeln('

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