Act Quotes
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
Cesare Pavese
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
Rachel Roberts
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
Gaby Hoffmann
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
Aristotle
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
Mandy Patinkin
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My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
Judah Friedlander
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. Mencken
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To know and not to act is not to know.
Wang Yangming
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“I’ve learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.”
Annie Barrows
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
Cyrus the Great
