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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
History
Will
Nation
Rule
India
Blackest
Look
Arms
Depriving
Act
Many
Whole
Among
British
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Knowledge
Knowledge Is Power
Tyranny
Power
Humility
Hoarding
May
Information
Act
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
Truth
Truth Is
People
Opportunity
Power
Own
Control
Conviction
Destinies
Only
Generally
Freely
Reach
Fixed
Decisions
Act
Belief
Right
Right Decisions
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'
Shaquille O'Neal
Day
You
Big
Down
Mark
Once
All My Friends
Excellence
Habit
Aristotle
Like
Known
Because
Said
Repeatedly
Singular
Friends
Quote
Quotes
Act
Who
Media
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
Rebellion
Every
Innocence
Essence
Being
Nostalgia
Act
Appeal
Expresses
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
Bradley Whitford
You
Yourself
More
Always
Version
Than
Role
Act
Bring
Playing
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Knowledge
Learning
Possession
Greatest
Getting
Which
Act
Grants
Enjoyment
We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
Joe Paterno
Good
Try
Will
Situation
Good Intentions
Admit
Shall
Wrong
Times
Intentions
Us
Act
Let Us
Right
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves
You
Simple
Long
Way
Simple Act
Take
Long Way
Attention
Act
Paying
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer
Heart
Better
Single
Pleasure
Thousand
Give
Heads
Bowing
Single Act
Than
Act
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Man
Grief
Every
Virtuous
Way
Fact
Wants
Act
Who
Many
Among
Necessarily
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson
Politics
Religion
Word
Matters
Nationalism
Petty
Other
Our
High
Citizens
Constitutional
Shall
Force
Opinion
Fixed
Confess
Official
Any
Act
Star
Prescribe
Orthodox
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
You
Gentleman
More
He
Like
Lady
Act
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
Barack Obama
Everybody
Way
Adult
Highway
Like
Quit
Just
Want
Realize
Act
Games
Playing
Playing Games
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner
Consequences
Affect
Probability
Again
Act
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl von Clausewitz
Time
Better
Past
Action
Hesitate
Until
Err
Quickly
Than
Act
Even
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Christopher Morley
You
Like
End
Expect
Get
Act
Zone
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Forgiveness
People
Trouble
Completed
Layers
Because
Been
Singular
Sitting
Taught
Act
Many
Seasons
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
Enrico Colantoni
You
Mistakes
Believe
Give
No-One
Environment
Schools
Make
Learn
How
Act
Teach
Professionalism
Techniques
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos
Alone
Loneliness
Leadership
Leader
Other
Side
Everything
Must
He
Accept
Always
Act
Acting
Who
Coin
Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.
Janet Reno
Good
Morning
You
Yourself
Wake Up
Feeling
Believe
About
Feeling Good
Wake
Up
Next
Act
Next Morning
Right
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. Maxwell
Life
You
Before
Must
Date
Ideas
Shelf
Shelf Life
Short
Them
Act
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
Lil Wayne
Best
You
Better
Smell
Garbage
Believe
Else
Dress
Threw
Throw
Like
Always
Than
Anybody
Anybody Else
Act
Your
Who
Trash
Ever
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley
Life
Battle
Wait
Decision
Mind
Everyday Life
Live
Everyday
Our
Circumstances
Ours
Given
True
Make
Make Up
Up
Whether
Act
Acting
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
Man
Opportunity
Passion
Wife
Evil
Adultery
Living
Guilty
Would
Some
Could
He
Like
Obvious
Another
Caught
Than
Act
Less
Reason
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
Positive
Success
Attitude
Failure
You
Reality
Yourself
Will
Men
Positive Results
Though
Something
More
Results
Feel
Soon
Look
Becomes
Amazed
Accomplished
Accordingly
Conduct
Than
Depends
Capacity
Successful
Act
Enjoying
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