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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 6/1/12      "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, continued, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." - John F. Kennedy 6/2/12      "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle 6/3/12      "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 6/4/12      "A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 6/5/12      "All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas Pere 6/6/12      "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." - Marcus Garvey 6/7/12      "Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved." - Margaret Fuller 6/8/12      "Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another." - Reinhold Niebuhr 6/9/12      "A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment." - Harvey S. Firestone 6/10/12      "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, And along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." - Herman Melville 6/11/12      "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung 6/12/12      "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder 6/13/12      "You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose." - Harry Browne 6/14/12      "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." - Richard Hooker 6/15/12      "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." - Fyodor Dostoevsky 6/16/12      "The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." - Niccolo Machiavelli 6/17/12      "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth 6/18/12      "The only true freedom each of us has in life is the freedom to choose. The most important choice is who we will become." - John C. Maxwell 6/19/12      "The art of happiness lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher 6/20/12      "Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another." - Elizabeth von Arnim 6/21/12      "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson 6/22/12      "Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend." - Thomas Chandler Haliburton 6/23/12      "It's not your job to like me -- it's mine." - Byron Katie 6/24/12      "If you can make people laugh, you get all the love you want." - Art Buchwald 6/25/12      "Failure: A man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard 6/26/12      "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - T.S. Eliot 6/27/12      "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 6/28/12      "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyere 6/29/12      "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." - Hannah Arendt 6/30/12      "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus

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