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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
12/01/12 | "He only profits from praise who values criticism." - Heinrich Heine |
12/02/12 | "People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn |
12/03/12 | "The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." - William Shakespeare |
12/04/12 | "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
12/05/12 | "Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James |
12/06/12 | "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir |
12/07/12 | "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr. |
12/08/12 | "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. ... Success is shy -- it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams |
12/09/12 | "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost |
12/10/12 | "One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget." - Franklin P. Jones |
12/11/12 | "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." - Leo Tolstoy |
12/12/12 | "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill from Churchill, Winston. The wicked wit of Winston Churchill. London, Michael O'Mara, 2001, p.44. |
12/13/12 | "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
12/14/12 | "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Albert Einstein |
12/15/12 | "A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things." - Jacques Maritain |
12/16/12 | "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho |
12/17/12 | "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. " - Galileo Galilei |
12/18/12 | "Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus |
12/19/12 | "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso |
12/20/12 | "It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment." - Freeman Dyson |
12/21/12 | "Always desire to learn something useful." - Sophocles |
12/22/12 | "Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul." - Francis Bacon |
12/23/12 | "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill from Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6499 (1974). |
12/24/12 | "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London |
12/25/12 | "I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." - Charles Dickens |
12/26/12 | "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." - Clarence Darrow |
12/27/12 | "My love is as a fever, longing still." - William Shakespeare |
12/28/12 | "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." - John Burroughs |
12/29/12 | "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln |
12/30/12 | "Have the courage to act instead of react." - Earlene Larson Jenks |
12/31/12 | "Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty." - John Selden |
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