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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 19, 2021
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952  
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)  
People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04  
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
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Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'  
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