#acts

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#acts #ideas #live #people

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward. ↗

— Mark Foley

#company #deal #determine #differently #forward

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#because #brain #coarse #connections #dog

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#disproved #facts #haven #life #only

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #facts #get #going #judgements

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. ↗

— Ike Turner

#contracts #days #either #man #marriages

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #extraordinary #hope #human #human life

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#caused #change #god #his #institutions