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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
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Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.
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Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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