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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 11/1/12      "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - Francis Bacon 11/2/12      "To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms." - John Leonard 11/3/12      "When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 11/4/12      "Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx 11/5/12      "The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 11/6/12      "Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell 11/7/12      "We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." - Seneca 11/8/12      "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." - Minna Antrim 11/9/12      "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 11/10/12      "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton 11/11/12      "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick 11/12/12      "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" -Maya Angelou 11/13/12      "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage." - Sydney Smith 11/14/12      "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson 11/15/12      "A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary." - Fred Allen 11/16/12      "If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan 11/17/12      "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald 11/18/12      "He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." - Danish proverb 11/19/12      "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells 11/20/12      "To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow 11/21/12      "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." - Robert Quillen 11/22/12      "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart 11/23/12      "The purpose of life is not to be happy --- but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." - Leo Rosten 11/24/12      "You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods 11/25/12      "Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones, which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay 11/26/12      "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle 11/27/12      "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein 11/28/12      "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain 11/29/12      "Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long as your values don't change. - Jane Goodall 11/30/12      "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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