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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 17, 2019
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)  
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935  
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0  
One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.
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Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978  
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