November 30, 2004
“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Gertrude Stein
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7:05 AM
November 29, 2004
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
Maya Angelou
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7:12 AM
November 26, 2004
“What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.”
Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
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8:12 AM
November 25, 2004
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
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7:03 AM
November 24, 2004
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)
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6:38 AM
November 23, 2004
“Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills.”
William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
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7:17 AM
November 22, 2004
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)
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7:21 AM
November 19, 2004
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
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7:25 AM
November 18, 2004
“I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music”
Ansel Adams
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7:05 AM
November 17, 2004
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
Turkish proverb
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7:03 AM
November 16, 2004
“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book--the past and the future entrancing each other.”
Roger Rosenblau
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7:39 AM
November 15, 2004
“Patience is also a form of action.”
Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
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6:32 AM
November 12, 2004
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”
Herman Melville
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8:58 AM
November 11, 2004
“With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
Chinese proverb
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7:01 AM
November 10, 2004
“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.”
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist [a.k.a. "Miss Manners"]
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7:11 AM
November 9, 2004
“The key to success in any endeavor is the ability to lead others successfully.”
John Maxwell
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7:04 AM
November 8, 2004
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Sir Walter Scott
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7:01 AM
November 5, 2004
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one’s liberty.”
Henry Frederic Amiel
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6:56 AM
November 4, 2004
“Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.”
Frank Dingdon
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7:24 AM
November 3, 2004
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
G. K. Chesterton
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7:05 AM
November 2, 2004
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.”
Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)
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7:14 AM
November 1, 2004
“The bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”
William Ralph Inge
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7:15 PM