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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 01, 2016
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)  
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005  
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009  
I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997  
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