Act Quotes
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
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It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
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The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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The problem is, the Endangered Species Act does need to be modernized, ... but the people in charge just want to do away with it.
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If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.
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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.
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To know and not to act is not to know.
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Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.
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The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.
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People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
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If you think confident, you act confident.
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Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.
