"Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity."

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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

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Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

"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."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"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."

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

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