“In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.”

—  Joyce Brothers

As quoted in Say It Right : A Guide To Effective Oral Business Presentations (1994) by Garth A. Hanson, Kaye T. Hanson and Ted D. Stoddard

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