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"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done."
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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
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"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done."
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