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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 26, 2024
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005  
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)  
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)  
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08  

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