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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 6/1/09      "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. 6/2/09      "A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping." - Kenneth Tynan 6/3/09      "The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran 6/4/09      "I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher 6/5/09      "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo 6/6/09      "Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton 6/7/09      "Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine 6/8/09      "People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster." - Alistair Cooke 6/9/09      "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus 6/10/09      "The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri-Frederic Amiel 6/11/09      "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6/12/09      "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley 6/13/09      "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James 6/14/09      "The mind's direction is more important than its progress."Joseph Joubert 6/15/09      "Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov 6/16/09      "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. 6/17/09      "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." - Remy de Gourmont 6/18/09      "Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 6/19/09      "To want to forget something is to think of it. - French Proverb 6/20/09      "There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side." - Oscar Levant 6/21/09      "It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him." - Mark Twain 6/22/09      "Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's sub writer, for self-respect." - Russell Lynes 6/23/09      "Clear your mind of cant." - Dr. Samuel Johnson 6/24/09      "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Barnett Cocks 6/25/09      "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas." - Victor Hugo 6/26/09      "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."- Bertrand Russell 6/27/09      "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - William Hazlitt 6/28/09      "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Samuel Johnson 6/29/09      "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson 6/30/09      "We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge." - Rutherford Rogers

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