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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
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I cannot live without books.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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John Hope Franklin
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes Away From Home, 02-29-12
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