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Thought-of-the-Day
November 2011 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
11/01/11"He that cannot obey, cannot command." - Benjamin Franklin
11/02/11"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - Somerset Maugham
11/03/11"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison
11/04/11"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
11/05/11"The ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." - Erich Fromm
11/06/11"Insist upon yourself. Be original." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11/07/11"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
11/08/11"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
11/09/11"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
11/10/11"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - George Washington
11/11/11"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - George S. Patton
11/12/11"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden
11/13/11"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." - Bertrand Russell
11/14/11"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." - George Santayana
11/15/11"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." - Peter Drucker
11/16/11"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell
11/17/11"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." - Eugene McCarthy
11/18/11"One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca
11/19/11"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body." - Henry David Thoreau
11/20/11"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin
11/21/11"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster
11/22/11"The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity." - Emily Post
11/23/11"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm
11/24/11"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero
11/25/11"Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful." - Irving Kristol
11/26/11"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
11/27/11"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
11/28/11"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." - Rollo May
11/29/11"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Keonig
11/30/11"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels." - Bertolt Brecht


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