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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 7/1/14      "Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore." - Henry Hazlitt 7/2/14      "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Benjamin Franklin 7/3/14      "At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide." - F. Scott Fitzgerald 7/4/14      "Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis 7/5/14      "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein 7/6/14      "One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves." - George Eliot 7/7/14      "When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are."- Donald Miller 7/8/14      "Lower your voice and strengthen your argument." - Lebanese proverb 7/9/14      "One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment." - Hart Crane 7/10/14      "You can't stop the future. All you can do is to pick a side." - Marcus Sakey 7/11/14      "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt 7/12/14      "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington 7/13/14      "The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers." - David Boaz 7/14/14      "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." - Abraham Lincoln 7/15/14      "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Khalil Gibran 7/16/14      "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." - Spanish proverb 7/17/14      "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost 7/18/14      "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde 7/19/14      "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more." - Jules Renard 7/20/14      "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw 7/21/14      "To live long it is necessary to live slowly." - Cicero 7/22/14      "Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Elizabeth Gilbert 7/23/14      "A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb 7/24/14      "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt 7/25/14      "Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."- Lewis H. Lapham 7/26/14      "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz 7/27/14      "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George H. Lorimer 7/28/14      "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." - Alexander Woollcott 7/29/14      "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer." - Henry David Thoreau 7/30/14      "Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life." - Confucius 7/31/14      "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi

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