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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
U.S. President

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Thomas Jefferson
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! Commonly misattributed

Listed by the Thomas Jefferson Monticello research staff among spurious quotations.

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