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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 05, 2026

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

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