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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 5/1/10      "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis 5/2/10      "No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov 5/3/10      "What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." - Edgar Watson Howe 5/4/10      "Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent 5/5/10      "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein 5/6/10      "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein 5/7/10      "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller 5/8/10      "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E. B. White 5/9/10      "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau 5/10/10      "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." - Woodrow Wilson 5/11/10      "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt 5/12/10      "He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." - William James 5/13/10      "Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise." - Alan Watts 5/14/10      "A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." - John le Carre 5/15/10      "All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened." - Ernest Hemingway 5/16/10      "Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human." - David Starkey 5/17/10      "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." - Jerry Garcia 5/18/10      "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein 5/19/10      "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."-Aldous Huxley 5/20/10      "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."- Andre Gide 5/21/10      "There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own."- Elizabeth Elton Smith 5/22/10      "Common sense is not so common."- Voltaire 5/23/10      "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."- George Bernard Shaw 5/24/10      "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust 5/25/10      "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."- Charles Darwin 5/26/10      "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 5/27/10      "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius 5/28/10      "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." - Harvey S. Firestone 5/29/10      "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - Carl Jung 5/30/10      "And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me." - Lee Greenwood 5/31/10      "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

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