Motivational Quotes of the Day

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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 27, 2017
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)  
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991  
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004  
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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