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«Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.»
Author: Berenice Abbott
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
acted, give out, initiate, initiated, initiating, photography, sings, subjective
«Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.»
«America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| About:
America and Americans,
Belief
| Keywords:
acted, advanced, differentiation, prospered, uniformity
«Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Art,
Excellence
| Keywords:
acted, excellence, habit, habituation, In Training, repeatedly, rightly, training, virtue, won
«It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.»
«If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Mankind
| Keywords:
acted, All of Us, fate, human being, individually, in unison, My Way, personally, poverty, responsible, responsible for, unison, wars
«Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.»
«How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.»
«It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Generations
| Keywords:
acted, debts, generation, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, One half, principle, wars, World War I
«How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!»
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