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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 22, 2013
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
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W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)  
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
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Cynthia Ozick  
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
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Jay Leno (1950 - )  
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
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Harold Bloom (1930 - )  
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