Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 13, 2012
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)  
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation  
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
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Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006  

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