Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.

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""It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.""

- William Faulkner

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"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."

- William Faulkner

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"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."

- William Faulkner

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"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

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"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

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"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

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"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

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"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

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