"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."

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"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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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"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."

Janet Flanner, American Journalist

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

John Updike, American Novelist

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

William Blake, English Poet

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."

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"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

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"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."

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"There is little success where there is little laughter."

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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

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"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best."

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"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

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