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The Great Opportunity Is Where You Are

April 21, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1276 Views intention, John Burroughs, Opportunity
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

Burroughs is trying to remind us that its easy to look far away and imagine great deeds we could accomplish, but the important thing is to be in the here and now, and make something of the current situation.

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