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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 2/1/13      "When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did 10 times more work." - George Bernard Shaw 2/2/13      "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover 2/3/13      "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt 2/4/13      "I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown 2/5/13      "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams 2/6/13      "No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit." - Andrew Carnegie 2/7/13      "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - H.L. Mencken 2/8/13      "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau 2/9/13      "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts." - Harold Macmillan 2/10/13      "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock 2/11/13      "The art of happiness lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher 2/12/13      "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln 2/13/13      "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself." - Thomas Fuller 2/14/13      "Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" - Thomas Hood 2/15/13      "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant 2/16/13      "To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands." - Anne Sophie Swetchine 2/17/13      "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln 2/18/13      "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington 2/19/13      "Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman 2/20/13      "Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience." - May Sarton 2/21/13      "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens 2/22/13      "Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation." - Allen Ginsberg 2/23/13      "Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious." - B.C. Forbes 2/24/13      "The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 2/25/13      "As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice." - Margot Bennett 2/26/13      "Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg 2/27/13      "If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality." - Walter Gropius 2/28/13      "A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." - Desiderius Erasmus

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