"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

Act, Disgrace, State, Violence

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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."

Janet Flanner, American Journalist

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."

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"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

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"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

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"Every man is a poet at heart."

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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."

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