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"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."

"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them."

"England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe."

"Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions."

"Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves."

"The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence."

"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."

"The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch."
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