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[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..] — Douglas Adams

For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
Contracts the danger of an actual fault. — Thomas Creech

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H.L. Mencken

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage. — Sam Altman

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing — David Halberstam

The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable. — William John Macquorn Rankine

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done. — Summer Sanders

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done. — Helen Keller

Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand. — Emma Anderson

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport. — Curtis Jackson

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. — Richard C. Armitage

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. — Oscar Wilde

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible. — Debbie Gibson

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you. — Vironika Tugaleva

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet. — John Motson

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning. — Thomas Keating

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television. — Callie Khouri

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty

I can't even say 'hair pie,' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits ... — Jonathan Safran Foer

Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols. — Edward T. Welch

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection. — Seth Godin

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears. — Reid Hoffman

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people. — Ted Nugent

The actual handbag is neither here nor there
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing. — Caitlin Moran

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs. — Wayne Dyer

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. — P. J. O'Rourke

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned. — Michelle Paver

First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books. — Terence Young

Buddy, you're the one who was right!" Da Shi laughed, shaking his head. "I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved! — Liu Cixin

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes. — Ronald A. Heifetz

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write — Hugh Prather

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. — Maureen Johnson

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. — D.H. Lawrence

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life. — Richard Diaz

Always keep in mind that training stimulates growth, but that actual growth takes place while you are resting. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest. — William S. Burroughs

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened. — Sam Riley

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible. — Jessica Lange

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love. — Jane Austen

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? — Sandra Chami Kassis

I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle, — Suzanne Collins

He looked perhaps ten years younger than his actual age, which was thirty-eight. — Stephen King

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings. — Kara Walker

We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined. — Malcolm Gladwell

It's an actual book-book. Something I thought was lost on this generation of internet fiends. — Colleen Hoover

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore. — Mark Strong

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld

sublimation concept - in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of — Jay R. Greenberg

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. — Idries Shah

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary. — Samuel Barnett

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny. — Nick Thune

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They — Lev Grossman

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. — Florence Nightingale

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels

In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am. — Jodi Picoult

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man! — Lynda Barry

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. — Vivian Gornick

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and ... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis De Broglie

The actual well seen is ideal. — Thomas Carlyle

[W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions. — Erich Fromm

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping. — Joaquin Phoenix

that simply teaching doctrine or preaching on a matter does not equate to actual ministry. Further engagement is required. — Mark A. Yarhouse

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. — Tony Blair

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. — Daniel Keys Moran

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. — Stefan Heym

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu

I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was. — Greg Daniels

No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent. — Thomas C. Oden

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique. — Aerin Lauder

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. — Steven D. Levitt

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something. — Bentinho Massaro

Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen. — David G. Myers

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses. — Taye Diggs

If I can't be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left. — Julian Barnes

I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play. — Eddie Trunk

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. — Imogen Heap

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce. — Glenn Greenwald

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion. — James Madison

The idea of it's great," I explain. "But then there's the actual thing of it. — Kristopher Jansma

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once. — Dexter Palmer

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Because when you're the caregiver, you're just as much the patient as the actual patient. — Bryan Bishop

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff