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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 8, 2025

The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.: John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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