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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 8/1/12      "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin 8/2/12      "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman 8/3/12      "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake 8/4/12      "Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." - Arthur Helps 8/5/12      "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - President Harry S. Truman 8/6/12      "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 8/7/12      "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand 8/8/12      "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem 8/9/12      "One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson 8/10/12      "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow 8/11/12      'The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings 8/12/12      "If there is no knowledge, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no knowledge." - The Talmud 8/13/12      "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson 8/14/12      "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci 8/15/12      "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay 8/16/12      "The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny." - Roberspierre 8/17/12      "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson 8/18/12      "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington 8/19/12      "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden 8/20/12      "The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney 8/21/12      "He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." - Horace 8/22/12      "We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things." - Herb Kelleher 8/23/12      "The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." - Charles Schwab 8/24/12      "When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves". - Lao Tzu 8/25/12      "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot 8/26/12      "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life." - Booker T. Washington 8/27/12      "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes 8/28/12      "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes 8/29/12      "Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis R. Whitney 8/30/12      "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain 8/31/12      "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

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