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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - February 3, 2012
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
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Margaret Fairless Barber
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
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John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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