Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - March 15, 2025
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942  
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964  
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
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Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000  
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008  

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