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Thought-of-the-Day
November 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
11/01/14"It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." - Adlai Stevenson II
11/02/14"Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it." - Gordon Graham
11/03/14"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Albert Camus
11/04/14"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi
11/05/14"Imaginary evils are incurable." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
11/06/14"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean de la Fontaine
11/07/14"There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
11/08/14"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence." - Abraham Lincoln
11/09/14"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
11/10/14"Woman knows what Man has too long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family." - Clare Booth Luce
11/11/14"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth
11/12/14"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
11/13/14"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." - Mark Twain
11/14/14"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
11/15/14"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles A. Lindbergh
11/16/14"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job." - George Crane
11/17/14"History is the unfolding of miscalculation." - Barbara W. Tuchman
11/18/14"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails." - John Maxwell
11/19/14"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
11/20/14"An obstacle is often a stepping stone." - Prescott Bush
11/21/14"Too often reason deceives us... but conscience never deceives." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11/22/14"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Oscar Hammerstein II
11/23/14"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
11/24/14"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return." - Marie Edgeworth
11/25/14"They know enough who know how to learn." - Henry Adams
11/26/14"I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - Omar Bradley
11/27/14"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
11/28/14"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan
11/29/14"There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." - Voltaire
11/30/14"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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