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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 31, 2026
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854  
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012  
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience
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John Gruber, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006  
I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992  

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