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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 03/01/00 | "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russell |
| 03/02/00 | "What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can." - Henry Thoreau |
| 03/03/00 | "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." - George Eliot |
| 03/04/00 | "Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." - Dr. Karl Menninger |
| 03/05/00 | "Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable." - Andre Gide |
| 03/06/00 | "When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel Montaigne |
| 03/07/00 | "Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| 03/08/00 | "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller |
| 03/09/00 | "While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned." - Seneca |
| 03/10/00 | "I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'" - Chief Justice Earl Warren |
| 03/11/00 | "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour |
| 03/12/00 | "Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare." - John Dryden |
| 03/13/00 | "Nothing endures but personal qualities." - Walt Whitman |
| 03/14/00 | "One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 03/15/00 | "When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one." - Mark Twain |
| 03/16/00 | "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison |
| 03/17/00 | "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley |
| 03/18/00 | "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." - John Holt |
| 03/19/00 | "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge |
| 03/20/00 | "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie |
| 03/21/00 | "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless." - Sinclair Lewis |
| 03/22/00 | "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience." - Anatole Broyard |
| 03/23/00 | "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung |
| 03/24/00 | "I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary." - Jules Feiffer |
| 03/25/00 | "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau |
| 03/26/00 | "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher |
| 03/27/00 | "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." - Samuel Johnson |
| 03/28/00 | "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert Heinlein |
| 03/29/00 | "Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you." - Horace |
| 03/30/00 | " It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'." - W. Somerset Maugham |
| 03/31/00 | "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Arthur Ashe |
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