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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 08, 2024
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  
Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)  
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  
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
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