Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 16, 2025
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623  
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
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Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)  
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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Nelson Mandela (1918 - )  
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993  

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