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- Marcus Aurelius
MAR 2013

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 3/1/13      "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." - Mohandas Gandhi 3/2/13      "Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur 3/3/13      "Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz 3/4/13      "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher 3/5/13      "Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." - Milton Friedman 3/6/13      "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt 3/7/13      "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller 3/8/13      "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill 3/9/13      "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher 3/10/13      "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne 3/11/13      "Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." - Blaise Pascal 3/12/13      "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates 3/13/13      "It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed." - Jean Rostand 3/14/13      "Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia." - Alexis Carrel 3/15/13      "Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo 3/16/13      "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." - Edmund Burke 3/17/13      "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine 3/18/13      "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform." - Susan B. Anthony 3/19/13      "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A. Milne 3/20/13      "Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3/21/13      "A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -- Winston Churchill 3/22/13      "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville 3/23/13      "Genius is talent set on fire by courage." - Henry van Dyke 3/24/13      "I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte 3/25/13      "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice." - Ernest Hemingway 3/26/13      "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." - Antony Jay 3/27/13      "Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - George Burns 3/28/13      "To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves." - Aldous Huxley 3/29/13      "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison 3/30/13      "Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which many men throw away." - Charles Caleb Colton 3/31/13      "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

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