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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 22, 2019
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
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Louis I Kahn  
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839  
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)  
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13  
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