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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 12, 2026
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)  
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)  
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005  
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.
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Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004  
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