We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into …

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president, p.127, NYU Press
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