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Act Quotes by Gore Vidal
- To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
- The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a…
- The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his…
- The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
- We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have…
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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
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold