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"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."
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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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Personal Development
"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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Personal Development
"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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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."
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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
Humanity
"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
Discovery
"The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received."
Education
"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."
Act
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
People
"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
Society
"The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart."
Truth
"In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook."
Society
"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
Leadership
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
Attitude
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