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"Do it or not, but do."

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."

"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

"Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do."
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"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."

"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."

"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
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