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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. - Honore de Balzac If someone says 'can't, ' that shows you what to do. - John Cage To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. - Henry Louis Mencken Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. - Alexander Pope
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