"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."

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"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

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"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."

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"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."

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"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."

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"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."

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"Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples."

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"Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology."

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"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language."

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"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."

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"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."

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"No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced."

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