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“No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“I'm alive. . . . Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.” Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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