"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

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"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."

Queen Latifah, American Musician

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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."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

Roger Wicker, American Politician

Act, Facts, Rights

"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

Robert Motherwell, American Artist

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act."

Ferdinand Lassalle, German Politician

Act, Germany, Will

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

Existence

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

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"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."

"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."

"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."

"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act."

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."