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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

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Lillian Smith
Age: 68 †
Born: 1897
Born: December 12
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.
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