"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."

Act, Civil rights

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"We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964."

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."

Elton Gallegly, American Politician

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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

Henry George, American Economist

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"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!"

Arno Penzias, American Scientist

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"When it gets down to it you just have to act."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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"But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing."

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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

Body

"The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong."

People

"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."

Discrimination

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."

Being

"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."

Old

"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions."

American

"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."

America

"I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings."

Self

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."

Government

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

Attitude