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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 08/01/00 | "Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child |
| 08/02/00 | "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, / And all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry W. Longfellow |
| 08/03/00 | "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring." - Herman Melville |
| 08/04/00 | "Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl |
| 08/05/00 | "Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama |
| 08/06/00 | "Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur." - Alvin Toffler |
| 08/07/00 | "Large streams from little fountains flow, / Tall oaks from little acorns grow." - David Everett |
| 08/08/00 | "Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life." - Charles Scribner, Jr. |
| 08/09/00 | "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred Witte Struven |
| 08/10/00 | "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." - Virginia Woolf |
| 08/11/00 | "Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?" - Arthur Miller |
| 08/12/00 | "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." - Dr. Seuss |
| 08/13/00 | "The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton |
| 08/14/00 | "The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation." - Eudora Welty |
| 08/15/00 | "The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." - Thomas Carlyle |
| 08/16/00 | "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill |
| 08/17/00 | "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford |
| 08/18/00 | "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill |
| 08/19/00 | "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 08/20/00 | "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." - Theodore Rubin |
| 08/21/00 | "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." - W. H. Auden |
| 08/22/00 | "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire |
| 08/23/00 | "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle |
| 08/24/00 | "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness." - Norman O. Brown |
| 08/25/00 | "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz |
| 08/26/00 | "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." - Milton Friedman |
| 08/27/00 | "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott |
| 08/28/00 | "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." - John Erksine |
| 08/29/00 | "The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." - James Fenimore Cooper |
| 08/30/00 | "Every exit is an entry somewhere." - Tom Stoppard |
| 08/31/00 | "Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase." - John Balguy |
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