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DEC 2014

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 12/1/14      "A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is." - Joseph Addison 12/2/14      "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo 12/3/14      "Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts." - Luc de Clapiers 12/4/14      "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer 12/5/14      "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill 12/6/14      "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 12/7/14      Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." - Isaac Asimov 12/8/14      "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain 12/9/14      "He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell 12/10/14      "Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts." - Erskine Bowles 12/11/14      "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment." - Albert Einstein 12/12/14      "Nature uses as little as possible of anything." - Johannes Kepler 12/13/14      "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." - Jean de La Fontaine 12/14/14      "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot 12/15/14      "Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are." - Jim Rohn 12/16/14      "The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." - Quentin Crisp 12/17/14      "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre 12/18/14      "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill 12/19/14      "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasgow 12/20/14      "Most people have to talk so they won't hear." - May Sarton 12/21/14      "The mind is the effect, not the cause." - Daniel C. Dennett 12/22/14      "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill 12/23/14      "Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better." - Bohdi Sanders 12/24/14      "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase 12/25/14      "Giving opens the way for receiving." - Florence Scovel Shinn 12/26/14      "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli 12/27/14      "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted." - Washington Irving 12/28/14      "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 12/29/14      "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth 12/30/14      "Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details." - William Feather 12/31/14      "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce

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