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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 27, 2025

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

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