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Act Quotes
"The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research."
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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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"Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements."
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"It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act."
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"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
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"I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
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"But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality."
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"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."
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"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
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"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up."
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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."
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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."
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"With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama."
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"You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it."
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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."
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"The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted."
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"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."
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"Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy."
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