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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 23, 2025
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962  
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
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Anonymous  
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004  

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