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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"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."

"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
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