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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. — Swami Vivekananda
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. — Earl Warren
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. — Rick Warren
I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular. — Johnny Weir
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what… — Florence Welch
When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get… — Rebel Wilson
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience… — Debra Winger
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age. — Helen Fisher
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible. — Anurag Kashyap
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world… — Emma Goldman
All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?… — Saul Bellow
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out… — William Morris
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — J. G. Ballard
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and… — Henry James
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less. — Pope John XXIII
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence… — Albert Einstein
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be… — Joyce Carol Oates

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