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Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! Paul J. Meyer Act 518
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. Jim Sensenbrenner Act 414
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson Act 389
You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age. Josh Schwartz Act 264
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee Act 168
Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre Act 168
The simple act of caring is heroic. Edward Albert Act 153
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet Act 152
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi Act 151
Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990. Jim Sensenbrenner Act 149
Think before you act and act on what you believe. Bo Bennett Act 139
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. Peter Sarsgaard Act 135
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself. Jane Fonda Act 125
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. Robin Morgan Act 123
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. Peter Mandelson Act 120
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin Act 118
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. J. Edgar Hoover Act 117
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. Oscar Wilde Act 108
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Arna Bontemps Act 105
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham Act 105
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. Jim Sensenbrenner Act 103
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies. Robert Mueller Act 100
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. Alfred Kinsey Act 97
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Oscar Wilde Act 97
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. Oscar Wilde Act 96
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. Annie Besant Act 95
Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God. John Pearson Act 95
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. George Orwell Act 95
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. Edward Albert Act 94
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage. Bobby Brown Act 94
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. Ida B. Wells Act 94
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. Sam Brownback Act 94
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Alexander Pope Act 93
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Abdul Kalam Act 93
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. William Kirby Act 92
I never change, except in my affections. Oscar Wilde Act 91
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. Ralph Ellison Act 91
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau Act 91
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. Karl von Clausewitz Act 89
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann Act 89
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer Act 89
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. Ralph Fiennes Act 88
Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. Rick Kaplan Act 87
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. William Godwin Act 87
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. George Santayana Act 86
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. Nelson Demille Act 86
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker Act 86
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. Jim Harrison Act 85
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. John Buchanan Robinson Act 85
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. William James Act 84

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