Actual Quotes

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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written. — Edward Abbey
The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane… — George Washington
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how… — Richard Henry Lee
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that… — Booker T. Washington
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It… — V.S. Naipaul
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a… — B.F. Skinner
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion… — Karl Marx
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already… — Martin Heidegger
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious… — Polybius
I have a great love of the actual. — Manny Farber
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star… — Olaf Stapledon
The kernel, the soulâ€”let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterancesâ€”is plagiarism, — Jonathan Lethem
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic. — Amos Oz
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never… — Peter Ackroyd
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a… — Maureen Johnson
Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury â€“ the phenomenon is an actual fact â€¦ all of the industrialised countries, especially… — Osama bin Laden
Are you a personâ€”with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprisingâ€”or are you… — Stephen R. Donaldson
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author

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