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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
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Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
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Anonymous, Blackfoot chief (c. 1880)
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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
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Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
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