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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 11, 2026
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008  
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You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006  
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915  
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)  
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