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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 11/1/11      "He that cannot obey, cannot command." - Benjamin Franklin 11/2/11      "It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - Somerset Maugham 11/3/11      "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison 11/4/11      "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."- George Bernard Shaw 11/5/11      "The ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." - Erich Fromm 11/6/11      "Insist upon yourself. Be original." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 11/7/11      "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings 11/8/11      "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt 11/9/11      "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer 11/10/11      "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - George Washington 11/11/11      "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - George S. Patton 11/12/11      "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden 11/13/11      "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." - Bertrand Russell 11/14/11      "Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." - George Santayana 11/15/11      "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." - Peter Drucker 11/16/11      "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell 11/17/11      "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." - Eugene McCarthy 11/18/11      "One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca 11/19/11      "Every man is the builder of a temple called his body." - Henry David Thoreau 11/20/11      "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin 11/21/11      "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster 11/22/11      "The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity." - Emily Post 11/23/11      "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm 11/24/11      "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero 11/25/11      "Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful." - Irving Kristol 11/26/11      "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln 11/27/11      "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson 11/28/11      "Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." - Rollo May 11/29/11      "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Keonig 11/30/11      "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels." - Bertolt Brecht

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