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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 4/1/11      "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is ... the highway to success." - Og Mandino 4/2/11      "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton 4/3/11      "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Sir Barnett Cocks 4/4/11      "Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness." - Charles W. Eliot 4/5/11      "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus 4/6/11      "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling 4/7/11      "Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 4/8/11      "Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect."- Blaise Pascal 4/9/11      "Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest." - William Faulkner 4/10/11      "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry 4/11/11      "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore 4/12/11      "A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton 4/13/11      "Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson 4/14/11      "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 4/15/11      "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Lady Dorothy Nevill 4/16/11      "Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" - Laurence J. Peter 4/17/11      "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould 4/18/11      "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world." - Lady Marguerite Gardiner 4/19/11      "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." - Nadine Gordimer 4/20/11      "Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." - James Allen 4/21/11      "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky 4/22/11      "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz 4/23/11      "The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember," - Mark Twain 4/24/11      "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes 4/25/11      "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley 4/26/11      "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert 4/27/11      "If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out." - Rabindranath Tagore 4/28/11      "Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware." - Anne Lamott 4/29/11      "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes 4/30/11      "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

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