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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - February 19, 2026
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.
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Thomas Szasz  
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
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Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance  
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )  
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012  

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