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E. B. White

"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

E. B. White, American Writer
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"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)."

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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."

bell hooks, American Critic
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"If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy."

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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician
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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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