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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 6/1/13      "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire 6/2/13      "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6/3/13      "Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein 6/4/13      "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries." - Rene Descartes 6/5/13      "Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez 6/6/13      "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell 6/7/13      "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - Nathaniel Hawthorne 6/8/13      "Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some." - Robert Fulghum 6/9/13      "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!" - Eubie Blake 6/10/13      "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard 6/11/13      "Fair winds and following seas and long may your big jib draw!" - Naval Blessing 6/12/13      "Anger as soon as fed is dead / 'Tis starving makes it fat." - Emily Dickinson 6/13/13      "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain 6/14/13      "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde 6/15/13      "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin 6/16/13      "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano 6/17/13      "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway 6/18/13      "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson 6/19/13      "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre 6/20/13      "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov 6/21/13      "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower 6/22/13      "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill 6/23/13      "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant 6/24/13      "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford 6/25/13      "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein 6/26/13      "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison 6/27/13      "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell 6/28/13      "A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." - Andrew Carnegie 6/29/13      "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante Alighieri 6/30/13      "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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