Acts Quotes

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The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… — Thomas Jefferson
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. — Saint Augustine
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our… — Lewis Mumford
Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people,… — Tad R. Callister
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the… — Paulo Coelho
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,… — Ambrose Bierce
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs
When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly.… — Nyogen Senzaki
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,… — Emile Durkheim
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which… — Carolyn Merchant
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in… — Thomas Szasz
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts… — William Eldridge Odom
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done. — Laozi
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness. — Laozi
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory… — Richard M. Weaver
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a… — Gioachino Rossini
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha
A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first. — Simon Sinek
There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love — Mother Teresa
Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust. — Jeffrey Gitomer
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold… — Che Guevara
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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