"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

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

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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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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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

"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."

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

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

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"An educated people can be easily governed."

"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings."