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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 7/1/09      "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." - Henry Moore 7/2/09      "If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." - Norman Douglas 7/3/09      "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - Sir William Osler 7/4/09      "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin 7/5/09      "I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France 7/6/09      "Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." - American Proverb 7/7/09      "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde 7/8/09      "Women prefer to talk in two's, while men prefer to talk in three's." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton 7/9/09      "A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience." - Samuel Johnson 7/10/09      "To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity." - Soren Keirkegarrd 7/11/09      "Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich 7/12/09      "It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part." - Marcel Proust 7/13/09      "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker Washington 7/14/09      "A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements." - Arnold Bennett 7/15/09      "As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices." - Joseph Conrad 7/16/09      "It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness." - George Santayana 7/17/09      "He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." - William James 7/18/09      "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage." - Benjamin Franklin 7/19/09      "Everybody's friend is nobody's." - Arthur Schopenhauer 7/20/09      "It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7/21/09      "Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you." - Logan Pearsall Smith 7/22/09      "I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world." - Blaise Pascal 7/23/09      "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." - Samuel Johnson 7/24/09      "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein 7/25/09      "Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." - William Shakespeare 7/26/09      "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright 7/27/09      "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." - Arthur Schopenhauer 7/28/09      "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift 7/29/09      "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." - Robert Greene Ingersoll 7/30/09      "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Saint Thomas Aquinas 7/31/09      "Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts." - Jean Cocteau

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