"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."

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

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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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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

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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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"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."

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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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"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!"

Arno Penzias, American Scientist

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"When it gets down to it you just have to act."

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"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."

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"I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce."

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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."

Little Richard, American Musician

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Absence

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

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"There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave."

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"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

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"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another, and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."

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"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."

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"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir."

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