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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson

Violence, Shall, Took

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Fact, Belief, Creates

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, State

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

Mind, Idea, State

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Education, Work, Living

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar

Die, Before, Times

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley

Jealousy, Anger, Fake

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey

Through, Hell, Place

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Success, Mother

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

Dream, Artist, Dreamer

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Word, Possible, Takes

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Doubt, Through, Walk

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot

Business, Poetry, Feelings

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Ambrose Bierce

Change, Him, Makes

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

Time, Pain, Passion

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas

Patience, Someone, Done

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz

Good, Women, Woman

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney

Time, Show, Point

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

Politics, Another, Vote

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry

Boring, Fish, Fishing

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
David Herbert Lawrence

Beauty, Human, Soul

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Lewis Carroll

Write, Read, Takes

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley

Explains, Unlike, Fictional

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer

Suffering, Taste, Revolt

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.
Demetri Martin

Said, Lady, Asked

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan

Today, Human, Through

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

Great, Road, Lovers

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.
Katy Perry

Work, Reality, Idea

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Martin Heidegger

Possible, Higher, Ranks

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