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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 4/1/13      "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck 4/2/13      "How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words." - Samuel Adams 4/3/13      "The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde 4/4/13      "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden Tower 4/5/13      "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." - Robert Byrne 4/6/13      "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice." - James Callaghan 4/7/13      "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin 4/8/13      "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom 4/9/13      "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell 4/10/13      "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."- George Orwell 4/11/13      "No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' " - Danielle Berry 4/12/13      "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers 4/13/13      "There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 4/14/13      "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader 4/15/13      "The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." - John Burroughs 4/16/13      "The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller 4/17/13      "If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue." - Alice Duer Miller 4/18/13      "It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it." - Amelia Barr 4/19/13      "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." - H. L. Mencken 4/20/13      "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli 4/21/13      "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James Baldwin 4/22/13      "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer 4/23/13      "If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet." - Proverbs 29:9 4/24/13      "Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me." - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" - Aphorism Number 183 4/25/13      "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Galileo Galilei 4/26/13      "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." - Stephen Covey 4/27/13      "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken 4/28/13      "In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer 4/29/13      "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guillaume Apollinaire 4/30/13      "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken

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