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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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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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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."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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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."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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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."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
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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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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure
"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man
"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
Politics
"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
Man
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Art
"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
Quality
"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."
Finance
"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
Identity
"Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
Social
"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
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