"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."

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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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"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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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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"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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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

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

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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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."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."

Paul Watzlawick, Austrian Psychologist

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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

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"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

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"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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