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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

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

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"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."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

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

"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
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"The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on."

"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived."

"The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act."
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