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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2012 Archive

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12/01/12"He only profits from praise who values criticism." - Heinrich Heine
12/02/12"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn
12/03/12"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." - William Shakespeare
12/04/12"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
12/05/12"Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James
12/06/12"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
12/07/12"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr.
12/08/12"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. ... Success is shy -- it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams
12/09/12"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
12/10/12"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget." - Franklin P. Jones
12/11/12"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." - Leo Tolstoy
12/12/12"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill from Churchill, Winston. The wicked wit of Winston Churchill. London, Michael O'Mara, 2001, p.44.
12/13/12"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." - Friedrich Nietzsche
12/14/12"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Albert Einstein
12/15/12"A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things." - Jacques Maritain
12/16/12"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
12/17/12"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. " - Galileo Galilei
12/18/12"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus
12/19/12"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
12/20/12"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment." - Freeman Dyson
12/21/12"Always desire to learn something useful." - Sophocles
12/22/12"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul." - Francis Bacon
12/23/12"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill from Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6499 (1974).
12/24/12"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
12/25/12"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." - Charles Dickens
12/26/12"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." - Clarence Darrow
12/27/12"My love is as a fever, longing still." - William Shakespeare
12/28/12"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." - John Burroughs
12/29/12"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln
12/30/12"Have the courage to act instead of react." - Earlene Larson Jenks
12/31/12"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty." - John Selden


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