Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 29, 2023
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)  
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)  
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
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Paul Graham, September 2004  
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999  

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