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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 20, 2014
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay  
External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.
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Real Live Preacher, Gospel Living in a Superficial World, 05-30-06  
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005  
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908  
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