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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."
"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."
"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."
"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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