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"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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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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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
Army
"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."
Peace
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
Argument
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
Success
"I try to be the same person I was yesterday."
Consistency
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
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"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."
Age
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Optimism
"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."
Compromise
"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."
Charity
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