"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."

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"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."

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

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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."

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

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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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"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."

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

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"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."

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