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The quotes below are from the end of the 1998-99 school year.

Thursday, June 16, 1999
LAST QUOTE FOR THE YEAR!!
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor

Wednesday, June 16, 1999
If you can't be funny, be interesting. Harold Ross

Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

Monday, June 14, 1999
Creativity can solve almost any problem. George Lois

Friday, June 11, 1999
The longer I live the more beautiful life become. Frank Lloyd Wright

Thursday, June 10, 1999
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams

Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Quote for the Day: Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce

Tuesday, June 8, 1999 Quote for the Day: Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon

Monday, June 7, 1999
Quote for the Day: The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd

Friday, June 4, 1999
Quote for the Day: Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. John Russell

Thursday, June 3, 1999
Quote for the Day: Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis

Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Quote for the Day: To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, June 1, 1999
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Friday, May 28, 1999
Quote for the Day: Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, May 27, 1999
Quote for the Day: A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson

Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Quote for the Day: It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Dame Rose Macaulay

Tuesday, May 25, 1999
Quote for the Day: Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Charlie McCarthy.

Monday, May 24, 1999
Quote for the Day: Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. Chinese Proverb

Friday, May 21, 1999
Quote for the Day: If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese Proverb

Thursday, May 20, 1999
Quote for the Day: The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. Joe Ancis

Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Henry Asquith

Tuesday, May 18, 1999
Quote for the Day: Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, May 17, 1999
Quote for the Day: Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Montaigne

Friday, May 14, 1999
Quote of the Day: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British novelist, scholar. The dwarf Gimli, in The Fellowship of the Ring, pt. 1, ch. 3, The Lord of the Rings, bk. 2 of trilogy (1954).

Thursday, May 13, 1999
Quote of the Day: Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Gather Together in My Name, vol. 2, ch. 6 (1974).

Wed., May 12, 1999
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Clarence Darrow