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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 08, 2024
Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)  
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996  
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880  
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