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Compare these two phrases and tell me which is more powerful:

"To boldly go where no man has gone before ..." 

or

"Boldly going where no man has gone before ..."

 If you chose the first, then I may have to agree with you that omitting the suffix "-ing" on verbs makes for more powerful statements, generally. And  there's a lot more cadence to saying "to do" or "to go" or "to give" than "doing," "going" or "giving."