"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

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"But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing."

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"Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act."

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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."

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"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act."

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"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

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"And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to."

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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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"The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often."

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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."

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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."

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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

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"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."

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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."

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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."

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"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."

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"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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