Motivational Quotes of the Day

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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 29, 2012
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)  
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004  
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005  
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010  
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