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Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. ↗

— David Guterson

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do. ↗

— Henry Drummond

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