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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 25, 2025
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820  
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)  
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'  
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997  
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