Act Quotes
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
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For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
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We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.
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All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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America’s progressive rulers, like France’s, act less as politicians gathering support than as conquerors who enjoy punishing captives without worry that the tables may turn.
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
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It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
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You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
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The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
