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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

Edward Coke

Act

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Act

Circumstances

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

Act

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Glenn Close

Act

Girls

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Grover Cleveland

Act

Public

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

War

Act

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Tom Clancy

Act

Collaboration