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Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Elbert Hubbard, as quoted in The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) by Evan Esar, p. 103

 
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