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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Cass Sunstein If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Korzybski If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Henry Fuseli Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
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  • Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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