#acts

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#knowledge #lies #piling #process #simplification

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#before #contacts #degree #english #english people

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

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I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#facts #find #follow #i #law

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#afraid #i #last #liked #long

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

#around #common #everywhere #exertions #individuals

In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products. ↗

— Bob Ney

#acts #addition #arising #arms #commerce

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#been #does #facts #logically #merely

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

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