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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
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Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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