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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Tim Allen

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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