Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 12, 2008
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)  
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
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Amy Tan (1952 - )  
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908  
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)  

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