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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Goes, Pay, Generation

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Art, Training, Rather

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Joy, Service

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Strong, Show

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl

Time, Live, Living

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Envy, Feeling, Moral

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Great, Small, Nations

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History, Learned, Principles

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Greatest, Nations, Gangsters

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph

Country, Band, Authority

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert

Time, Act, Books

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
Nelson A. Miles

Wrong, Unfair, Party

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Difficult

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Morgan Freeman

Love, Romantic, Movie

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood

Small, Support, Interested

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

Life, Positive, Death

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness, Human, America

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
J. D. Salinger

Good, Hard, Mean

I acted in millions of TV shows.
Sebastian Bach

Shows, Tv, Millions

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
Ozzy Osbourne

Time, Someone, Reality

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Power, Gratitude

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
Eliot Spitzer

Family, Wrong, Sense

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.
Nicolas Cage

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
Theodore Bikel

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash

Success, Work, Person

I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.
Lea Michele

Great, Remember, Everyone

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson

Two, Sometimes, Knew

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.
Condoleezza Rice

Nothing, United, Coming

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
Jane Campion

Acting, Between, Wanted

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