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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.: Fritjof Capra, physicist
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It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.: Charles Victor Cherbuliez

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