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Act Quotes
"The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go."
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"Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe."
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"All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China."
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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
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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 Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle."
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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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"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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"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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"And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to."
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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act."
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"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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"Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others."
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"If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly."
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"The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed."
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
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"I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do."
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"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail."
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"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
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"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
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"Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist."
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"I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999."
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"A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
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"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."
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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 think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically."
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"A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another."
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"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
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