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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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 wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
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Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
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
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
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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