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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 12/1/10      "Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale 12/2/10      "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts. But if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." - Francis Bacon 12/3/10      "I keep six honest serving-men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who." - Rudyard Kipling 12/4/10      "The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems." - R. Buckminster Fuller 12/5/10      "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein 12/6/10      "There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken 12/7/10      "If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time." - Shimon Peres 12/8/10      "To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything." - Andre Breton 12/9/10      "There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom,and that is character." - H.L. Mencken 12/10/10      "I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." - Rosalia de Castro 12/11/10      "Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. " - Ronald Reagan 12/12/10      "A word after a word after a word is power." - Margaret Atwood 12/13/10      "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams 12/14/10      "Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." - George Cannin 12/15/10      "He who opens a school, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo 12/16/10      "Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own." - Arnold Bennett 12/17/10      "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou 12/18/10      "The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan 12/19/10      "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams 12/20/10      "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind." - William Shakespeare 12/21/10      "My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should." - Friedrich von Schiller 12/22/10      "I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth." - Pearl Buck 12/23/10      "I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift 12/24/10      "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!" - Charles Dickens 12/25/10      "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." - Calvin Coolidge 12/26/10      "We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope." - William Wordsworth 12/27/10      "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln 12/28/10      "Better hope deferred than none." - Samuel Beckett 12/29/10      "Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." - Charlotte Bronte 12/30/10      "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling 12/31/10      "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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