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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

I learned early that sometimes you have to dig through garbage to get anywhere.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
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I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Results from Classic Quotes:

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 9/15/88
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.: Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.: Zeuxis (~400 BC), from Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.: Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC), History
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