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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/1/21
"The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts... everything we do, we do for the young." - Elizabeth II
12/2/21
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once." - Audrey Hepburn
12/3/21
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress." - Coco Channel
12/4/21
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
12/5/21
"A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools." - Confucius
12/6/21
"One's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend — and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?" - Marie Antoinette
12/7/21
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton from The Sewanee Review. United States, University of the South, 1892.
12/8/21
"Honesty is the best policy." - Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
12/9/21
"With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all." - Elizabeth II
12/10/21
"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
12/11/21
"It does not matter what's the color of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other and we should all fight for our rights, for the rights of children, for the rights of women and for the rights of every human being." - Malala Yousafzai
12/12/21
"We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth's moon." - Neil Armstrong
12/13/21
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
12/14/21
"To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things." - Lee Iacocca
12/15/21
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa
12/16/21
"Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
12/17/21
"It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man." - Michelangelo
12/18/21
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12/19/21
"The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be" - Warren Buffett
12/20/21
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12/21/21
"I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale
12/22/21
"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12/23/21
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain
12/24/21
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." - Thomas Jefferson
12/25/21
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell
12/26/21
"Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12/27/21
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
12/28/21
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once." - Audrey Hepburn
12/29/21
"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favourite things!" - Oprah Winfrey
12/30/21
"And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the fierce urgency of now — we should not fear change, we should embrace it." - Barack Obama
12/31/21
"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling
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