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Sex is more than an act of pleasure, itâ€™s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable… — Thom Yorke
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. — Pierre Bonnard
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. — Antoni Tapies
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. — Gustave Flaubert
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is â€¦ political, even… — Amiri Baraka
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. — Jerome Bruner
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. — Jerome Bruner
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Optimism is a revolutionary act — Cameron Crowe
You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans… — Mike Schmidt
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or… — James Weldon Johnson
Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait… — James Nayler
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. — Eric Zorn
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know — Alexis Carrel
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter.… — Charles Grandison Finney
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated — Robert Greene
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the communityâ€™s defence… — Alan Keyes
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. — C.S. Lewis

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