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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2010 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/01/10"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
12/02/10"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts. But if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." - Francis Bacon
12/03/10"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." - Rudyard Kipling
12/04/10"The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems." - R. Buckminster Fuller
12/05/10"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein
12/06/10"There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
12/07/10"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time." - Shimon Peres
12/08/10"To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything." - Andre Breton
12/09/10"There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom,and that is character." - H.L. Mencken
12/10/10"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." - Rosalia de Castro
12/11/10"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. " - Ronald Reagan
12/12/10"A word after a word after a word is power." - Margaret Atwood
12/13/10"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
12/14/10"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." - George Cannin
12/15/10"He who opens a school, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo
12/16/10"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own." - Arnold Bennett
12/17/10"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
12/18/10"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
12/19/10"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
12/20/10"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind." - William Shakespeare
12/21/10"My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should." - Friedrich von Schiller
12/22/10"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth." - Pearl Buck
12/23/10"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift
12/24/10"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!" - Charles Dickens
12/25/10"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge
12/26/10"We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future years with hope." - William Wordsworth
12/27/10"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln
12/28/10"Better hope deferred than none." - Samuel Beckett
12/29/10"Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte
12/30/10"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling
12/31/10"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot


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