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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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Personal Development
"Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting."
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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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Personal Development
"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."
Friendship
"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."
Man
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
Genius
"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
Act
"Every decision you make is a mistake."
Mistake
"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
Food
"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
Conscience
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
Independence
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