"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."

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"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."

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"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."

Jim Elliot, American Clergyman

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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

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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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"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."

Donald O'Connor, American Musician

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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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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"

Andrei Platonov, Russian Writer

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"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere."

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"The well of true wit is truth itself."

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"Bring the army of the faithful through."

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"The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong."

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"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."

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"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."

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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."

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

"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."

"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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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"

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