Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 18, 2015
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
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Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)  
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks  
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006  

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