DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
12/1/08 |
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity." - George Bernard Shaw
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12/2/08 |
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn
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12/3/08 |
"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased." - William Hazlitt
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12/4/08 |
"The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning." - Carl Gustav Jung
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12/5/08 |
"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten." - Thomas Otway
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12/6/08 |
"To choose what is difficult all one's day, as if it were easy, that is faith." - W.H. Auden
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12/7/08 |
"Be who you are and say what you feel 'cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel
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12/8/08 |
"Words are loaded pistols." - Jean-Paul Sartre
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12/9/08 |
"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." - D.H. Lawrence
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12/10/08 |
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." - Nora Ephron
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12/11/08 |
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne
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12/12/08 |
"Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves." - Rudyard Kipling
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12/13/08 |
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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12/14/08 |
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - Winston Churchill
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12/15/08 |
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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12/16/08 |
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." - Jeremy Bentham
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12/17/08 |
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
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12/18/08 |
"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves." - Eric Hoffer
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12/19/08 |
"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
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12/20/08 |
"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus
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12/21/08 |
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
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12/22/08 |
"We do not acquire humility. There is humility in us - only we humiliate ourselves before false gods." - Simone Weil
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12/23/08 |
"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear." - Marilyn C. Barrick
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12/24/08 |
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads." - Clement Clarke Moore
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12/25/08 |
"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." - Thomas Tusser
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12/26/08 |
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess." - Rainer Maria Rilke
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12/27/08 |
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." - Clare Boothe Luce
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12/28/08 |
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
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12/29/08 |
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." - Livy
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12/30/08 |
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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12/31/08 |
"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot
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