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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 21, 2025
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)  
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
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Paul Graham, September 2004  
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990  
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
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Cynthia Ozick  
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