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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 9, 2008
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
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Alexander A. Bogomoletz
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994

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