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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 12, 2022
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)  
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)  
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
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Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934  
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)  
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