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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 2, 2025
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176  
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  
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You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012  
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The family is the country of the heart.
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Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)  
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