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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 10/01/07 | "Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece." - Nadia Boulanger |
| 10/02/07 | "What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." - Hal Boyle |
| 10/03/07 | "History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all." - Fernand Braudel |
| 10/04/07 | "There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation." - Kingman Brewster |
| 10/05/07 | "I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside." - Joseph Brodsky |
| 10/06/07 | "Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us." - Van Wyck Brooks |
| 10/07/07 | "So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies." - John Mason Brown |
| 10/08/07 | "When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under." - Rosellen Brown |
| 10/09/07 | "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance." - Anatole Broyard |
| 10/10/07 | "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." - Martin Buber |
| 10/11/07 | "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl Buck |
| 10/12/07 | "The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth." - Gerald Burril |
| 10/13/07 | "A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion." - Richard E. Byrd |
| 10/14/07 | "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell |
| 10/15/07 | "You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own." - Mark Caine |
| 10/16/07 | "There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." - Albert Camus |
| 10/17/07 | "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote |
| 10/18/07 | "[The secret of] how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ... was to be indifferent to that difference." - Al Capp |
| 10/19/07 | "For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world." - Bennett Cerf |
| 10/20/07 | "The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares." - John Chancellor |
| 10/21/07 | "Flattery is the infantry of negotiation." - Lord Chandos |
| 10/22/07 | "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - Maurice Chevalier |
| 10/23/07 | "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack." - Winston Churchill quoted by Duke of Windsor, Edward. A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, K.G.. United Kingdom, Cassell, 1951. |
| 10/24/07 | "Nothing ... goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character." - John Ciardi |
| 10/25/07 | "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love." - William Sloan Coffin |
| 10/26/07 | "Our memories are card indexes - consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control." - Cyril Connolly |
| 10/27/07 | "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins |
| 10/28/07 | "History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances." - Donald Creighton |
| 10/29/07 | "Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction." - Wilford O. Cross |
| 10/30/07 | "Fanaticism is ... overcompensation for doubt." - Robertson Davies |
| 10/31/07 | "God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." - Isak Dinesen |
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