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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 11/01/01 | "What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai Stevenson |
| 11/02/01 | "One can acquire everything in solitude except character." - Stendhal |
| 11/03/01 | "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." - Michel de Montaigne |
| 11/04/01 | "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana |
| 11/05/01 | "If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil." - James A. Garfield |
| 11/06/01 | "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain |
| 11/07/01 | "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 11/08/01 | "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham |
| 11/09/01 | "Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." - Jean de la Fontaine |
| 11/10/01 | "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." - Sophocles |
| 11/11/01 | "Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine |
| 11/12/01 | "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." - Margaret Fuller |
| 11/13/01 | "While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful." - H. G. Wells |
| 11/14/01 | "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud |
| 11/15/01 | "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler from Commencement Addresses (ed. 1951) |
| 11/16/01 | "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu |
| 11/17/01 | "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller |
| 11/18/01 | "Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement." - Thomas Wolfe |
| 11/19/01 | "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost |
| 11/20/01 | "Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best." - David O. McKay |
| 11/21/01 | "Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions." - Ben Stein |
| 11/22/01 | "I thank you God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes." - E. E. Cummings |
| 11/23/01 | "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." - George Eliot |
| 11/24/01 | "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein |
| 11/25/01 | "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." - R. D. Laing |
| 11/26/01 | "Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society." - Confucius |
| 11/27/01 | "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell |
| 11/28/01 | "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein |
| 11/29/01 | "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." - George Orwell |
| 11/30/01 | "It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you." - Baltasar Gracian |
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