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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 8/1/11      "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu 8/2/11      "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe 8/3/11      "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde 8/4/11      "Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor." - Seneca 8/5/11      "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency." - John Maynard Keynes 8/6/11      "The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." - Patrick Young 8/7/11      "The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence." - Samuel Johnson 8/8/11      "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves." - Eric Hoffer 8/9/11      "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott 8/10/11      "Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul." - Horace 8/11/11      "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." - Abraham Lincoln 8/12/11      "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 8/13/11      "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." - Benjamin Franklin 8/14/11      "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of moral crisis, do nothing." - Dante Alighieri 8/15/11      "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers 8/16/11      "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke 8/17/11      "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte 8/18/11      "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes." - John Wooden 8/19/11      "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." - Ben Stein 8/20/11      "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson 8/21/11      "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson 8/22/11      "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies." - Aristotle 8/23/11      "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin 8/24/11      "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking 8/25/11      "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca 8/26/11      "The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt 8/27/11      "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi 8/28/11      "When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean." - Lin-Chi 8/29/11      "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A. A. Milne 8/30/11      "To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." - Abraham Maslow 8/31/11      "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

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