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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 8/1/09      "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein 8/2/09      "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy." - Milton Friedman 8/3/09      "There is always room at the top - after the investigation." - Oliver Herford 8/4/09      "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." - Henry Miller 8/5/09      "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion 8/6/09      "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats 8/7/09      "To find yourself, think for yourself. " - Socrates 8/8/09      "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." - Washington Irving 8/9/09      "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." - Henri Frederic Amiel 8/10/09      "Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve." - George Santayana 8/11/09      "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler 8/12/09      "We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language." - Joyce Carol Oates 8/13/09      "A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for." - John Shedd 8/14/09      "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." - John Milton 8/15/09      "In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst." - Oscar Wilde 8/16/09      "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." - Charlotte Bronte 8/17/09      "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky 8/18/09      "O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - William Shakespeare 8/19/09      "Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents." - Carl Gustav Jung 8/20/09      "The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 8/21/09      "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - Neil Postman 8/22/09      "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want." - Italian Proverb 8/23/09      "Success is how you bounce when you hit bottom." - George Smith Patton, Jr. 8/24/09      "Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack." - John Shedd 8/25/09      "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."- Nathaniel Hawthorne 8/26/09      "I have not been afraid of excess. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - William Somerset Maugham 8/27/09      "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." - William Shakespeare 8/28/09      "The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed." - Helen Keller 8/29/09      "What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 8/30/09      "It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same." - Isadora Duncan 8/31/09      "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

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