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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 23, 2025
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
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Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia  
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012  
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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Joseph F. Newton  
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)  
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