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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 2/1/09      "I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82." - Dave Brubeck 2/2/09      "Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton 2/3/09      "One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca 2/4/09      "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie 2/5/09      "I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself." - Michel de Montaigne 2/6/09      "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry 2/7/09      "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iacocca 2/8/09      "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." - Sydney Smith 2/9/09      "A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." - Samuel Johnson 2/10/09      "Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect." - Arthur Schopenhauer 2/11/09      "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." - Norman Douglas 2/12/09      "Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition." - Abraham Lincoln 2/13/09      "Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill 2/14/09      "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm 2/15/09      "A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities." - Herman Melville 2/16/09      "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi 2/17/09      "The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin 2/18/09      "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle 2/19/09      It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan 2/20/09      You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London 2/21/09      Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael Leunig 2/22/09      Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. - Alvin Toffler 2/23/09      Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Stephen King 2/24/09      To find yourself, think for yourself - Socrates 2/25/09      It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. - Robert Musil 2/26/09      Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 2/27/09      A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers 2/28/09      Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash

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