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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 9, 2026
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)  
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946  
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
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Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)  
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989  

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