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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 17, 2026
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009  
Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.
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Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09  
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915  
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
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Celia Thaxter  

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