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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.: Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?': Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
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Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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