“The things we do first reflect clearly the elements that are most significant in our picture of ourselves.”
Eugene Kennedy (1978) A Time for Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=qJeAlL3hBLMC&q=%22The+things+we+do+first+reflect+clearly+the+elements+that+are+most+significant+in+our+picture+of+ourselves%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage p. 187
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Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 34)

Earliest instance of this quote found on google books is the 1989 book Forest primeval: the natural history of an ancient forest by Chris Maser, but there it appears to be Maser's own thought (see p. 230 http://books.google.com/books?id=8EAHQM54E5gC&q=%a+mirror% followed by a different supposed Gandhi quote http://books.google.com/books?id=8EAHQM54E5gC&q=gandhi).
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Quote from the first and only! issue of the art-magazine 'Art Concret', Paris 1930
1926 – 1931

Source: 20th century, The Analysis of Sensations (1902), p. 23, as quoted in Lenin as Philosopher: A Critical Examination of the Philosophical Basis of Leninism (1948) by Anton Pannekoek, p. 454
Source: 1950s, The painter and the audience' (1954), p. 106

As quoted in Don't Try to Live Your Life in One Day! (2008) by Johnny Ong, p. 171

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure