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Act Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
- Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of…
- The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
- The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the…
- Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
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- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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