"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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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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"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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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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"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."

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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 before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

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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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"Dignity belongs to the conquered."

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"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."

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"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."

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"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."

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"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."

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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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