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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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