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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
John F. Kennedy is said to have opened a White House dinner for American Nobel laureates with the comment that there hadn’t been so much intellectual firepower gathered in that room since the days when Thomas Jefferson used to dine there alone.
Posted from Park City, Utah
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