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Thought-of-the-Day
November 2012 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
11/01/12"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - Francis Bacon
11/02/12"To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms." - John Leonard
11/03/12"When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
11/04/12"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx
11/05/12"The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11/06/12"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell
11/07/12"We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." - Seneca
11/08/12"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." - Minna Antrim
11/09/12"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel
11/10/12"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
11/11/12"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick
11/12/12"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou
11/13/12"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage." - Sydney Smith
11/14/12"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson
11/15/12"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary." - Fred Allen
11/16/12"If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
11/17/12"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
11/18/12"He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." - Danish proverb
11/19/12"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells
11/20/12"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow
11/21/12"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." - Robert Quillen
11/22/12"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
11/23/12"The purpose of life is not to be happy --- but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." - Leo Rosten
11/24/12"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods
11/25/12"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones, which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay
11/26/12"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle
11/27/12"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein
11/28/12"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain
11/29/12"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don't change." - Jane Goodall
11/30/12"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt


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