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Famous Quotations from Quotabilia
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Here are a few random quotes:
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.