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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 19, 2025

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862

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