"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

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"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

William Blake, English Poet

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

Mind

"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

Art

"I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it."

Confidence

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

Satire

"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

Humility

"Mozart's music gives us permission to live."

Music

"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."

Observation

"In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience."

Existence

"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

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