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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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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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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"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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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience."
Cause
"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
Court
"They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do."
Effort
"You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available."
Legal
"I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!"
Thought
"People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable."
People
"The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold."
Impression
"For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world."
Thought
"I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent."
Time
"The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'"
Evening
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