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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 21, 2026
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008  
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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
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Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"  
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.
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Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93  
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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  
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