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

"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."

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

"Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting."

"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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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
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