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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 13, 2026

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.: Thomas Szasz
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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