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- Marcus Aurelius
JULY 2008

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 7/1/08      "Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." - Hermann Hesse 7/2/08      "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell 7/3/08      "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears." - Rudyard Kipling 7/4/08      "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin 7/5/08      "To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." - Charles Horton Cooley 7/6/08      "What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 7/7/08      "To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents." - Barbara Tuchman 7/8/08      "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." - Jules Renard 7/9/08      "As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest." - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne 7/10/08      "Diogenes struck the father when the son swore." - Robert Burton 7/11/08      "To think is to say no." - Emile Chartier 7/12/08      "People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority." - Philip Chesterfield 7/13/08      "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me." - Mohandas K. Gandhi 7/14/08      "One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs 7/15/08      "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Arthur Rubinstein 7/16/08      "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices --- just recognize them." - Edward R. Murrow 7/17/08      "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Alva Edison 7/18/08      "Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson 7/19/08      "I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten 7/20/08      "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein 7/21/08      "You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." - Phaedrus 7/22/08      "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 7/23/08      "It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation." - Roberto Benigni 7/24/08      "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." - Margaret Atwood 7/25/08      "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." - Rachel Carson 7/26/08      "He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius." - William Gillmore Simms 7/27/08      "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard 7/28/08      "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." - W. H. Auden 7/29/08      "There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." - Philip Dormer Stanhope 7/30/08      "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki 7/31/08      "Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Andre Maurois

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