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DEC 2011

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 12/1/11      "It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." - John Steinbeck 12/2/11      "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell 12/3/11      "Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves." - Germaine Greer 12/4/11      "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero 12/5/11      "Simplicity is the peak of civilization." - Jessie Sampter 12/6/11      "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott, 12/7/11      "The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do." - Andrew Carnegie 12/8/11      "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr. 12/9/11      "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." - Charles F. Kettering 12/10/11      "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James 12/11/11      "The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others." - Dag Hammarskjöld 12/12/11      "Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships." - Charles Simic 12/13/11      "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." - Thomas Szasz 12/14/11      "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson 12/15/11      "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 12/16/11      "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein 12/17/11      "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without." - Henry David Thoreau 12/18/11      "The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine." - Mike Murdock 12/19/11      "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson 12/20/11      "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci 12/21/11      "Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much." - Erastus Wiman 12/22/11      "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos 12/23/11      "The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves." - J. Carla Nortcutt 12/24/11      "Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing." - Oscar Wilde 12/25/11      "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Benjamin Franklin 12/26/11      "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung 12/27/11      "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs 12/28/11      "Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish Proverb 12/29/11      "You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind." - Irish proverb 12/30/11      "That action is best which accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers." - Francis Hutcheson 12/31/11      "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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