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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2017 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/01/17"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
12/02/17"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa
12/03/17"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi
12/04/17"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people." - Walt Whitman
12/05/17"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see." - Henry David Thoreau
12/06/17"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius
12/07/17"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.
12/08/17"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." - Oprah Winfrey
12/09/17"As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators." - Bill Watterson
12/10/17"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
12/11/17"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
12/12/17"Look with favour upon a bold beginning." - Virgil
12/13/17"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain
12/14/17"Little by little, one travels far." - J. R. R. Tolkien
12/15/17"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
12/16/17"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." - Will Rogers
12/17/17"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
12/18/17"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." - Ronald Reagan
12/19/17"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke
12/20/17"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that." - Baltasar Gracian
12/21/17"I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return." - L. M. Montgomery
12/22/17"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." - Douglas Adams
12/23/17"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." - John Adams
12/24/17"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
12/25/17"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." - Aeschylus
12/26/17"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." - Aesop
12/27/17"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen
12/28/17"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'" - Maya Angelou
12/29/17"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
12/30/17"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
12/31/17"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Sir Francis Bacon


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