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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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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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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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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one."
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"In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement."
Act
"My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
Mom
"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
Health
"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
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"Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary."
Wife
"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt."
Camping
"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."
Father
"My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary."
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"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."
Science
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