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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson

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Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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