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Happiness is a sort of action.
Happiness
Aristotle

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Happiness is activity.
Happiness
Aristotle

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Habit
Aristotle

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
Games
W. H. Auden

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
Hell
W. H. Auden

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You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
Sex
W. H. Auden

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Action
Red Auerbach

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Life and Living
Marcus Aurelius

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Action
Marcus Aurelius

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Action
Marcus Aurelius

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Reserve
Jane Austen

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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Vanity
Lauren Bacall

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Progress
Gaston Bachelard

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Training
Francis Bacon

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Action is the antidote to despair.
Despair
Joan Baez

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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Weddings
Walter Bagehot

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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Indecision
Kenneth Baker

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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Acting and Actors
Alec Baldwin

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Character
Faith Baldwin

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality
Honore De Balzac

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Action
Honore De Balzac

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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
Communication
John Banham

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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Uniqueness
Tallulah Bankhead

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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Acting and Actors
Ellen Barkin

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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Dreams
Djuna Barnes

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun