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"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."

"Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

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"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear."

Charles Rangel, American Politician

Act, Country, Democracy, Rights

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"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."

"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."

Peter Sarsgaard, American Actor

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"The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it."

"The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it."

Lance Burton, American Entertainer

Act, Beginning, Doves, First

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"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."

"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

Act, College, Parents, Play

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

"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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"Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime."

"Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime."

Frank Serpico, American Celebrity

Act, Crime, Free speech, President

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"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."

"Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take."

Anna Friel, English Actress

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"Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act."

"Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act."

Piper Perabo, American Actress

Act, Living, Trying

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"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing."

"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing."

Frederick Robertson, English Clergyman

Act, Man, Worth

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"Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great."

"Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great."

Gedde Watanabe, American Actor

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"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."

"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."

Corliss Lamont, American Philosopher

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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 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."

Chris Chocola, American Politician

Act, Burden, Children, Now

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"As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished."

"As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished."

Kathleen Turner, American Actress

Act, Country, Dress

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"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity."

"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity."

Edmond De Goncourt, French Writer

Act, Despair, Infinity

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"My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends."

"My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends."

Joe Rogan, American Comedian

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"It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters."

"It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters."

Bryce Dallas Howard, American Actress

Act, First, Paradox, Writing

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

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

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."

"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."

Judi Dench, English Actress

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"The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing."

"The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing."

Jean Toomer, American Author

Act, First, Ignorance

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"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"

"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"

Shannen Doherty, American Actress

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"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

John Updike, American Novelist

Act, Blind, President, States

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"By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made."

"By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

Act, Liberty, Will

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"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."

"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

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"The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this."

"The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this."

Jon Corzine, American Politician

Act, Americans, President, Risk

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"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."

"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

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"I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style."

"I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style."

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

Act, Computer, Hate, Style

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"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."

"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."

Rose Macaulay, English Novelist

Act, Conscience, Light, Wrong

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"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."

"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."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

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"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."

"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."

Juice Newton, American Musician

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"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."

"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."

James Broughton, American Director

Act, Bitterness

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"You have to be quite stupid to act."

"You have to be quite stupid to act."

Rachel Weisz, British Actress

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"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

John Henry Newman, British Clergyman

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"Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?"

"Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?"

Victoria Jackson, American Comedian

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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."

"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."

Emile Durkheim, French Sociologist

Act, Causes, Suicide, Temperament

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"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."

"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."

Dorthea Brande, American Writer

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"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."

"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

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"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."

"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."

Laura Linney, American Actress

Act, School, Teachers, Trying

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"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act."

"I want more children but for the next three years I want to act."

Anna Friel, English Actress

Act, Children, Want, Years

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"Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag."

"Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag."

Larry Craig, American Politician

Act, Congress, First, Freedom

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"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."

"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."

Christina Aguilera, American Musician

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"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."

"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."

John Grierson, British Director

Act, Opinion, Opinions, Right

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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

John Ensign, American Politician

Act, Building, Community, Country

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"You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy."

"You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy."

Irene Dunne, American Actress

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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."

"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."

Paul Watzlawick, Austrian Psychologist

Act, Actions, Invention, Words

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"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."

"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

Act, Children, Giving, Schools

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"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

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"I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example."

"I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example."

Steve Garvey, American Athlete

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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."

"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."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Act, Being, Preaching, Sermons

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