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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope."

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"What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him."

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Robert Henri Artist
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"Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway."

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"More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already."

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Huey Newton Activist
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"Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."

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Pancho Barnes Aviator
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"We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one."

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