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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Born:
November 6, 1880
Died:
April 15, 1942
(aged 61)
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