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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
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Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
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