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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 4/1/06      "This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." - Mark Twain 4/2/06      "The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." - David Hume 4/3/06      "How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." - William Shakespeare 4/4/06      "In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it." - Samuel Johnson 4/5/06      "To know another language is to have a second soul." - Charlemagne 4/6/06      "Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli 4/7/06      "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General Patton 4/8/06      "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men." - Plato 4/9/06      "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol 4/10/06      "Indeed, there are no easy correlations between parental ideology, class or race and 'successful' child development. Many children the world over have revealed a kind of toughness and plasticity that make the determined efforts of some parents to spare their children the slightest pain seem ironic." - Robert Coles 4/11/06      "Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference." - Charles Nalin 4/12/06      "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.'' - William James 4/13/06      "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Basil King 4/14/06      "Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, 'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.' " - Samuel Johnson 4/15/06      "In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." - Plutarch 4/16/06      "It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you." - William C. Menninger 4/17/06      "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." - Thomas J. Watson 4/18/06      "Conquer yourself not the world." - Rene Descartes 4/19/06      "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer." - Henry David Thoreau 4/20/06      "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison 4/21/06      "There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley 4/22/06      "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." - John Stuart Mill 4/23/06      "A good parent is only as happy as their most unhappy child." - Mrs. R. C. Goorney 4/24/06      "Life is a voyage that is homeward bound." - Herman Melville 4/25/06      "A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore 4/26/06      "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder 4/27/06      "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry Thoreau 4/28/06      "The impulse of tragedy is on to life and more life." - Eugene O'Neill 4/29/06      "They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance." - Edmund Burke 4/30/06      "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

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