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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 5/1/08      "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill 5/2/08      "If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein 5/3/08      "A very popular error - having the courage of one's convictions: Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions." - Friedrich Nietzsche 5/4/08      "People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority." - Philip Chesterfield 5/5/08      "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas Kempis 5/6/08      "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard 5/7/08      "Scoundrels are always sociable." - Arthur Schopenhauer 5/8/08      "Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld 5/9/08      "Mediocrity is a hand-rail." - Charles Louis de Secondat 5/10/08      "The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." - Voltaire 5/11/08      "Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." - Suzanne Necker 5/12/08      "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein 5/13/08      "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw 5/14/08      "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - E. B. White 5/15/08      "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Sir R. F. Burton 5/16/08      "We live in our desires rather than in our achievements." - George Moore 5/17/08      "O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - William Shakespeare 5/18/08      "I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything." - Vladimir Nabokov 5/19/08      "It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies." - Bertrand Russell 5/20/08      "It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." - Margaret Mead 5/21/08      "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." - David Hume 5/22/08      "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain 5/23/08      "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci 5/24/08      "The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity" - Ludwig Wittgenstein 5/25/08      "Everybody sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson 5/26/08      "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean Paul Sartre 5/27/08      "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka 5/28/08      "Mythology is what we call someone else's religion." - Joseph Campbell 5/29/08      "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky 5/30/08      "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell 5/31/08      "Never was anything great achieved without danger." - Niccolo Machiavelli

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