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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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"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common."
Church
"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."
Time
"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."
Death
"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe."
Man
"As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so."
Time
"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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"Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question."
Medical
"Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith."
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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
"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
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