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A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with… — Eustace Mullins
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and… — Stephen Covey
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment… — John O'Hurley
You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation. — Sophia Amoruso
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. — Irvine Welsh
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can… — Charlotte Bunch
The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off… — Lewis B. Smedes
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Unknown Author
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience,… — Paul Bowles
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the… — George Bernard Shaw
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" — Robert Breault
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....… — Terence McKenna
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function. — Moshe Feldenkrais
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an… — Origen
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun… — Epictetus
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus

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