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If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If… — Royden G. Derrick
Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams. — W. Arthur Porter
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to… — Francine du Plessix Gray
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. — Peter Agre
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something… — Nicholas Meyer
Training is principally an act of faith. — Franz Stampfl
We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up,… — Carl B. Cook
Personality is that which is most intimate to meâ€”that by which I mustÂ act out my life. It is that by which I belong to… — Hugh Reginald Haweis
Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character. — Robert Grudin
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldnâ€™t be. We are our brothersâ€™ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong.… — John Dufresne
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. — John Dufresne
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the… — Judith Warner
They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on… — Cyril Cusack
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would… — David Bentley Hart
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at… — Tom DeLonge
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. — Harold H. Greene
The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow… — Frank Serpico
If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of… — Frances E. Willard
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. — Robert Baer
For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and… — C. Terry Warner

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