Act Quotes
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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 act justly means to do what is right when it is inexpedient to do so.
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People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.
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Living well is a courageous act.
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Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
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It's very important to understand how to act in any situation.
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We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.
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If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!
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I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
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If one knows but does not act accordingly, one knows imperfectly’.
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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
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They lack the ultimate audacity.” Caldwell nodded, frowning. “They possess a certain inventiveness, they plan superbly, they execute with ferocity and care. But then there comes that moment.” He glanced at his son-in-law with a quick, fond smile. “That terribly lonely moment when you must make a further decision—a huge one. One that has nothing to do with everything you’ve anticipated. With the whole future in doubt, with hopelessly inadequate information and exhausted from the strain of the battles already fought, you have to summon up all your energies and decide, quickly and clearly; and act.” He took his pipe from his mouth. “That’s where they break down.
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If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
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You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.
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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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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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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.
