"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Max Baer, American Athlete

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"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."

Charles Fort, American Writer

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"It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."

John C. Danforth, American Politician

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"I write, but I also act."

Eric Bogosian, American Actor

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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."

Kelly Rowland, American Musician

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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."

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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."

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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

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"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."

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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."

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"They held it their duty to live but for their country."

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"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

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"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."

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"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."

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"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

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