How can I turn off restoring all windows on restart?

Lion restores all my windows and applications when it restarts my computer.  Is there any way to turn that feature off?

This "feature" is really annoying.  For years I have set my computer to shut down around midnight and then start itself up again at 6:00 AM.  It's a habit, I guess.  I just don't like waking up to a mess of opened applications and half-read browser articles.  Makes me crazy.  I also really don't like opening Word or Excel to the last few documents or spreadsheets I last worked on.  I don't understand why Apple thought this was a good idea.  Does anybody know any code to turn these "features" off?
John

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