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

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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."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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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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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity."

Nelson DeMille, American Author

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"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."

Ric Keller, American Politician

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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Woman

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Ethics

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Woman

"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""

Happiness

"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."

Courage

"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."

Society

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

"If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity."

"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

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"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."

"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."