#acts

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Facts are counterrevolutionary. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. ↗

— Tim Holden

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