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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 7/1/10      "The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." - Sue Atchley Ebaugh 7/2/10      "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." - Gian Vincenzo Gravina 7/3/10      "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly." - Cecil B. DeMille 7/4/10      "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin 7/5/10      "People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as having too little. "- Ivy Compton-Burnett 7/6/10      "To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment." - George Edward Woodberry 7/7/10      "All your strength is in union - all your danger is in discords." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7/8/10      "if your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people."- Chinese Proverb 7/9/10      "Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack." - John Shedd 7/10/10      "Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score." - Marianne Espinosa Murphy 7/11/10      "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon 7/12/10      "Debt is the worst poverty." - Thomas Fuller 7/13/10      "No man is really wise until he is kind and courteous." - Charles Haas 7/14/10      "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James 7/15/10      "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne 7/16/10      "He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world." - Thomas Jefferson 7/17/10      "Every evening, I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." - Mary C. Crowley 7/18/10      "We probably wouldn't worry about what other people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller 7/19/10      "Cross your bridges before you come to them and you have to pay the toll twice." - Franklin P. Jones 7/20/10      "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." - G.W. Lyon 7/21/10      "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." - Malcolm S. Forbes 7/22/10      "The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this victory can never know defeat." - A.J. Cronin 7/23/10      "What you want to do, you do. The rest is just talk." - John Cleek 7/24/10      "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt 7/25/10      "The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone." - J.H. Boetcher 7/26/10      "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents that in times of prosperity would have lain dormant." - Horace 7/27/10      "By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling." - Sidney J. Harris 7/28/10      "The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not." - Aristotle 7/29/10      "it is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is, What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau 7/30/10      "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." - John Cassis 7/31/10      "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." - Peggy Noonan

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