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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 1/1/12      "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin 1/2/12      "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain 1/3/12      "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1/4/12      "Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." - Grace Paley 1/5/12      "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." - Leo Tolstoy 1/6/12      "Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." - Vernon Howard 1/7/12      "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his teacher." - Leonardo Da Vinci 1/8/12      "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank 1/9/12      "Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel 1/10/12      "The unfed mind devours itself." - Gore Vidal 1/11/12      "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russell 1/12/12      "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch 1/13/12      "Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx 1/14/12      "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger 1/15/12      "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." - Lucille Ball 1/16/12      "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr. 1/17/12      "The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character." - Sigmund Freud 1/18/12      "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt 1/19/12      "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer 1/20/12      "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes 1/21/12      "Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware." - Anne Lamott 1/22/12      "If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out." - Rabindranath Tagore 1/23/12      "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert 1/24/12      "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley 1/25/12      "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes 1/26/12      "The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember," - Mark Twain 1/27/12      "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz 1/28/12      "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky 1/29/12      "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy 1/30/12      "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." - Aung San Suu Kyi 1/31/12      "We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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