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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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Personal Development
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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Personal Development
"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."
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"I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story."
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"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
Happiness
"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."
Life
"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel."
Time
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
Friendship
"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."
Friendship
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
Will
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