Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 12, 2009
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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Louise Erdrich
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
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Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
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Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)

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