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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 11/1/09      "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton 11/2/09      "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein 11/3/09      "You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." - Samuel Johnson 11/4/09      "You do not get a second chance to make a first impression." - Anonymous 11/5/09      "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson 11/6/09      "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." - John Galsworthy 11/7/09      "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 11/8/09      "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." - Abba Eban 11/9/09      "Public opinion in this country is everything. " - Abraham Lincoln 11/10/09      "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman 11/11/09      "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have." - President Theodore Roosevelt 11/12/09      "We always weaken whatever we exaggerate." - Jean Francois de La Harpe 11/13/09      "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." - Albert Einstein 11/14/09      "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage." - Mark Twain 11/15/09      "Anger as soon as fed is dead. 'Tis starving makes it fat." - Emily Dickinson 11/16/09      "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson 11/17/09      "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge 11/18/09      "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power." - Honore de Balzac 11/19/09      "There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life." - Unknown 11/20/09      "Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed." - Anne Rice 11/21/09      "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust 11/22/09      "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau 11/23/09      "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin P. Adams 11/24/09      "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill 11/25/09      "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin 11/26/09      "The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 11/27/09      "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol 11/28/09      "Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions." - Aristotle 11/29/09      "The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." - Oswald Spengler 11/30/09      "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." - Thomas Jefferson

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