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Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the beginning was the deed.
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The sentence puts action at the very start of things. It suggests that what is done matters more than what is merely said or imagined. “The deed” means a concrete act, so the quote presents action as the foundation from which events or meaning begin.
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