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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it. — Aaliyah
Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and the place to act -… — Sarah Susanka
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,… — Emile Durkheim
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) — Sylvia Plath
... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I… — Phillip Lopate
Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide… — Erwin Stengel
A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And… — Sun Tzu
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger,… — Sun Tzu
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of… — Carl von Clausewitz
My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.' — Ken Dodd
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case,… — Charles Darwin
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams
The simple act of caring is heroic. — Edward Albert
A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. — George S. Patton
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. — William Howard Taft

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