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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
George Santayana
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Philosopher
Action
Goes On
Names
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In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions and detractors emphasize its negative effects. It was virtually impossible to find people outside either camp.
Shelby Steele
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Author
Action
Administrators
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Effects
Focus
Good Intentions
Impossible
Negative
Talking
General
Blacks
Camp
Either
Emphasize
Intentions
Outside
Supporters
Virtually
Whites
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Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Finance
Abortion
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Campaign Finance
Clear
Conservative
Gun
Gun Control
Legislation
Opponents
Predictable
Rules
Understand
Advance
Campaign
Cared
Down
Judges
Other
Progressives
Terms
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Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
Chad Harbach
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Writer
Action
Baseball
Basketball
Lonely
Plot
Soccer
Spotlight
Team
Players
Field
Unlike
Roam
Same Time
Team Game
Tend
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I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the 1980s, and it is true today. You should know that I do not consider myself a pacifist; there are times, in my view, when military action may be necessary.
Oscar Arias
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Former President Of Costa Rica
Action
Military
Today
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History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Hugh Evans
/
Humanitarian
History
Action
Boycott
Bus
Complacency
Everyday
Flags
Force
Montgomery
Protest
Rely
Shows
Simple
Song
Strikes
Symbolic
Thinking
Scale
Songs
Designed
Disrupt
Whatever
Wearing
Movements
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Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
Martin Heinrich
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United States Senator
Action
Gun
Illegal
Law
Owners
Real
Trafficking
Violence
Abide
Gun Law People
American People
Background
Check
Communities
Cracking
Down
Owe
Making
Prevent
Punishing
Reduce
System
Ways
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Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
Vic Willis
/
Action
Delighted
Form
Opinion
Pirate
Tales
Team
Best Believe Me
Best Believe Your
Assure
Bring
Wait
Hear
Pennant
Smoky
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The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
Don Bluth
/
Animator
Running
Action
Action Films
Animated
Department
Hard Rock
Marketing
Rock Music
Rocks
Selling
Sex
Films
Important Part
Live Action
Rock
Outside
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Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
Justin Sane
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Guitarist
Technology
Action
Beautiful
Enemy
Giving Up
Profit
Willing
Die
Adopt
Ally
Beautiful Thing
Far
Model
Last
Puts
Realize
Seem
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The whole endeavor becomes less about a constraint on action and rather about helping us to be more of who we would actually like to be, at our best and if we felt it were possible. Rather than positioning effort as being about "thou shalt not," it becomes all about "can do!"
Mary C. Gentile
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Action
Effort
Helping
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There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to - and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people's emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
Wole Soyinka
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Writer
Action
People
Trying
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The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
Mark Kirk
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United States Senator
War
Action
Congress
Decision
Men And Women
Military
Military Action
Veteran
Young
War Men Women
Carry
Eyes
War Women Men
Wear
Important Decision
Mission
Representative
The Most Important
Uniform
Volunteered
Young Men
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A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.
Rajneesh
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Guru
Action
Doors
Waiting
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Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De Sable
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Action
Believe
Justice
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Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don't know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.
Tom Brady
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Football Player
Action
Athlete
Consequence
Doubt
Healthy
Lifting
No Doubt
Pro Athlete
Strengthening
Stronger
Good Your May
Good Better May
Weights
Pro
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I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'
Hillary Clinton
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Action
American Military
Boots
Cautious
Military
Military Power
Skeptical
Vote
Particularly
Presidents
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If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.
Ennio Morricone
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Composer
Action
Horror
Thrillers
Love Music Movies
Horror Movies
In Other Words
Love Stories
Scroll
Specialist
Westerns
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The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous dichotomy of control. Up to us are our judgments, decisions, and actions; everything else is not up to us, because it is influenced by external factors.
Massimo Pigliucci
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Professor
Action
Decision
Judgment
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Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from 'Speed' because it's extremely funny, and it's really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember.
Graham Moore
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Screenwriter
Funny
Action
Dialogue
Explosions
Notion
Pops
Remember
Smart
Speed
Witty
Everyone
Bit
Extremely
More People
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The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
Joel Silver
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Film Producer
Action
Female
Genre
Movie Making
Male
Hit
Designed
Matrix
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The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.
James K. Polk
/
11Th U.s. President
Action
Consideration
Foreign Policy
Harmony
Policy
President
Senate
Advance
Branch
Foreign
Himself
Measures
Ultimately
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
Jim Webb
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Former United States Senator
Journey
War
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Aftermath
Civil War
Difficult
Groups
Policy
White
Came
Civil
Cultural
Suffered
Designed
Recognize
Terms
Socio-Economic
Understandable
Uniquely
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Action
Causes
Destroyed
Human Mind
Ignorance
Indifference
Most Powerful
Powerful
Totally
Accompanied
General
Interests
Thus
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When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.
Michelle Alexander
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Professor
Society
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Economic
Familiar
Found
Political
Prison
Social
Structure
Back
Caste
Colorblind
Creates
Without
Curtain
Entrance
Look
Gate
Pull
Racial
See
System
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Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring
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Blogger
Action
Combat
Dollars
Higher
Investors
Pursue
Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Standards
Actions
Collective
Expense
Leverage
Profits
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Action
Clear
Confusion
Endless
Features
Foresight
Repetition
Self
Self Preservation
Simple
Strikes
Thinking
Act
Constitute
Counsel
Effective
Emergency
Gong
Jarring
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Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.
Adrian Grenier
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Actor
Action
Helping
Neighbor
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It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.
John Francis Daley
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Television Actor
Action
Finishing
World
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If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words, his was action. This is what he has done to women. Never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women, so you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.
Donald Trump
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45Th President Of The United States
Action
Clinton
Done
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Action
Cities
Israel
Military
Occupation
Palestinian
Territory
Bank
Determines
Reside
Unilateral
West Bank
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When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.
James Wan
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Film Producer
Action
Aquariums
Swimming
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Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
John Herschel
/
Baronet Herschel
Action
Important
Normal
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The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
Mark Helprin
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Novelist
Action
Elation
Elevation
Shooting
Soldier
Strikes
Zone
Automatic
Tremendous
Extent
War Zone
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I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.
Nomy Arpaly
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Philosopher
Quality
Action
Character
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I was a pretentious teenager, so of course I had, you know, 'Raging Bull' posters and all of that. 'Raging Bull' is not a pretentious movie, but me having the poster was a pretentious action. I even grew a goatee and had a Knicks cap, because I thought I wanted to be like Spike Lee.
Adam Scott
/
Movie
Action
Grew
Pretentious
Wanted
Bull
Cap
Course
Having
Lee
Poster
Raging
Spike
Spike Lee
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Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.
Frank Langella
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Film Actor
Action
Brain
Thinking
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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
John Prendergast
/
Human Rights Activist
Action
Block
Done
Genocide
Human Rights
Ignorance
Rights
Vague
Nothing
Biggest
Idea
Crimes
Often
Human
Feeling
Happening
Other
Stop
Such Things
Vague Idea
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Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.
David F. Swensen
/
Yoga
Action
Depth
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When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'
Matthew Reilly
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Writer
Movie
Action
Book
Jurassic Park
Myself People Doing
Apart
Read
Michael
Guys
Jurassic
Mine
Park
Possibly
Tom
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Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have got a profoundly ugly form of thought and of actions, why match that? Antifa's ugliness is no better than the ugliness of the far right.
Penny Rimbaud
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Writer
Action
Ugly
Violence
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In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
Allen West
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Former United States Representative
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
African American
Office
Warning
Obama
Candidate
Case
Nation
Gimmick
Rush
Sign
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I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.
John Cena
/
Professional Wrestler
Action
Comedy
Drama
Eye
Going Away
Legendary
Proven
Studios
Superstar
Thinking
Wwe
Always People Will
Eyes Always People
Big Guy
Open
Case
Eyes
Frame
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I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A-minus action movie. We kind of elevated the material a little bit. It's got a great car-chase scene at the very beginning. It has some terrific moments in it, some funny stuff. It's a great rental.
Kyle Maclachlan
/
Actor
Funny
Movie
Action
Action Movie
Funny Stuff
Little Bit
Moments
Proud
Scene
Stuff
Terrific
Bit
Beginning
Elevated
Hidden
Material
Took
Turned
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Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
Bob Dylan
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Musician
Action
Book
Might
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The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
Geoff Mulgan
/
Writer
Action
Britain
Facts
Linked
Police
Poor
September
September 11
Terrorist
Arrest
Attacks
Damaging
Excused
Explained
Fact
Hugely
Muslims
Possibly
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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To me, the problem with the president is that he takes very authoritarian actions in terms of attacking democratic institutions and then just uttering a large number of false and misleading statements that then make it hard sometimes for the people to know what is true and what is false.
Ted Lieu
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United States Representative
Action
People
President
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts
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Former U.s. Representative
Kids
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Believe
Black
Color
Community
Done
Gender
Needs
Poor
Scholarship
Should
Skin Color
Thinking
White
Skin
Badly
Based
Believes
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The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?
Sathya Sai Baba
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Saint
Action
Together
Violence
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I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.
Donald Barthelme
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Author
Action
Arguing
Believe
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