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"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."
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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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"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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"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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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one."
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"Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate."
Time
"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend."
Emotional
"A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations."
Society
"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."
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"We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation."
Time
"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."
Desire
"The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally."
War
"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common."
Church
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."
Time
"A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason."
Science
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