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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Mind, Action, Reason
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.