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The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.
Jacob Weisberg
/
Journalist
Excess
Internment
Torture
World War Ii
War History World
Acts
Alien
Alongside
Earned
Hall
Japanese
Mccarthy
Sept
Suspected
Terrorists
World War
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One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.
Magnus Larsson
/
Tennis Player
Available
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Concrete
Obvious
Storage
Timber
Acts
Commonly
Exceptionally
Renewable
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When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
William Wells Brown
/
Novelist
Change
Boys
Committed
Mother
Rights
Acts
Boy
Brought
Cruel
Dr
William
Mine
Ordered
Something Else
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
Mandy Patinkin
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Actor
Revenge
Vicious
Acts
Cycle
Situations
Untold
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The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.
Justin Hayward
/
Musician
Acts
Catalog
The Problem With
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I feel like it's improving a little bit as we go on, but I've never been to Lilith Fair. It always seemed so cool that it was started by women, for women, and it was a safe place to go and hear all of your favorite female acts in one space.
Maren Morris
/
Improving
Acts
Safe Place
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G. White
/
Author
Christ
Gentleness
Humility
Performing
Ready
Sacred
Unselfish
World
Most
Words
Come
Acts
Always
Being
True
Elevate
Ennoble
Help
Help Others
Message
Others
Reveals
Showing
Speaking
Which
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When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.
Michael Shermer
/
Writer
Science
Creation
Identification
Invoke
Picks
Theology
Acts
Beginning
Believers
Leaves
Miracles
Mysteries
Scientists
Search
Whereas
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While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.
Anthea Butler
/
Birmingham
Bombing
Church
Forgotten
Historic
Recognition
Seems
Series
Terror
Acts
Communities
Impose
Similar
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The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
Martin Denny
/
Composer
Band
Beach
Good Friend
Hawaii
Honolulu
Hotel
Night
Acts
Advised
Oh
Loved
Good Friends
Local
Mine
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America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
John Updike
/
Novelist
Dream
America
Bombers
Chains
Darkness
Madness
Millions
Paradise
Patient
Rules
Acts
Face
Beneath
Beyond
Possible
Her
Wherever
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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn
/
Novelist
Men
Aggression
Brave
Bravery
Capacity
Evidence
Selfless
Men Women Brave
Acts
Anecdotal
Broad
Expressed
Women Men Brave
Senseless
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My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!
Jonathan King
/
Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Accountants
Alive
Careers
Genesis
Involved
Knowing
Acts
Exist
Greatest Reward
Intended
Jonathan
Reward
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When I was 12 or 13, the hyphy movement was beginning to bubble. And you had local acts such as the Federation or E-40, Mac Dre, and Too Short that the local radio station would play all the time. You'd hear E-40 as much as you'd hear Jay Z.
G-Eazy
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Rapper
Federation
Movement
Radio
Acts
Beginning
Bubble
Dre
Short
Mac
Hear
Jay
Local
Radio Station
Station
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I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.
Benjamin Wittes
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Engaged
Presidential
Acts
Constitute
Exercises
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I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.
John Nelson Darby
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Beloved
Careful
Church
Contrast
Reading
God Always Me
God Me Feel
Picture
Acts
Afforded
Deeply
Early
Present
Owned
Practical
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I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.
Simon Baron-Cohen
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Professor
Abhorrence
Cruelty
Satisfied
People Doing Bad
Acts
Inherited
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That's my mission: I really want to get in the heads and hearts of kids and persuade them that they can believe things they haven't seen, they can do things that maybe others haven't done before them, that they are more than their worst acts.
Bryan Stevenson
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Professor
Acts
Heads
Mission
Persuade
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I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
Jane Green
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Author
Love Is
Love Enough Love Is
Acts
Love Day Every Day
Love Love Is Day
Requires
Verb
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Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.
Robin Diangelo
/
Analysis
Racism
Acts
Larger
Occur
Participate
Prevents
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I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Tiberius
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Roman Emperor
Change
Smile
Men
Binding
Consistent
Long
Might
Precedent
Sake
Senate
Support
Change Man I Am
Since
Acts
Beware
Itself
Shall
Suffer
Ways
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Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
Vivian Campbell
/
Guitarist
Technology
Cutting
Doe
Manipulate
Acts
Current
Organic
Transcend
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Criminal conspiracy requires not only that the conspirators know that a crime is going to be committed, but that they knowingly intend to help each other commit the crime - and then commit certain overt acts in connection with that conspiracy.
Richard Painter
/
Commit
Conspiracy
Acts
Criminal
Intend
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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Author
Cruelty
Folklore
Indignation
Instinct
Mercy
Moral
Natural
Underdog
Acts
Side
Center
Towards
Needless
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I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'
Iyanla Vanzant
/
Spiritual Teacher
Bad Day
Cat
Nerves
Acts
Sofa
Test
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Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.
Misty Copeland
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Author
Ballet
Perseverance
Acts
Lake
Swan
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Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.
Jonathan Turley
/
Lawyer
Abuse
Affair
Clinton
Grand Jury
Jury
Lying
Monica
Oath
Wide
Acts
Array
Bill
Bill Clinton
Conduct
Criminal
Grand
Impeached
Lewinsky
Misleading
Monica Lewinsky
Nixon
Primarily
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At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
Alison Weir
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Writer
Industrial Revolution
Revolution
Sixteen
Trade Unions
Acts
Factory
Industrial
Studying
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
Matt Taibbi
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Author
Legal
Enron
Helping
Player
Wall
Acts
Bet
Corrupt
Expose
Inefficient
Instrumental
Policing
Sniff
Wall Street
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams
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Poet
Administration
Attention
International
Judging
Violence
Visible
Way
Acts
Agreed
Judge
Due
Private Person
Undertaken
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Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
Robert Giroux
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Frank
Virginia
Woolf
Acts
Assignment
Me Start New
Early Years
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
Barbara Mandrell
/
Singer
Female
Opening
Singers
Standing
Acts
Male
Joke
Dolly Parton
Little Girl
Lynn
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Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
Al Sharpton
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Minister
Clear
Officers
Police
Said
Transparent
Unethical
Acts
Judge
Bad
Believe Me Bad
Believe I Believe Police
Criminal
Engage
Fair
Impartial
Nor
Police Officers
Repeatedly
System
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We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal, whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation.
Osama Bin Laden
/
Committed
Hideous
Israeli
Jihad
Occupation
Unjust
Acts
Criminal
Directly
Tyrannical
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Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
Richard Harding Davis
/
Journalist
Flags
Flying
Portugal
Red
White
Yellow
Acts
Apparently
Balancing
Side
Watch
Grand
Houses
Inhabited
Row
Signal
Tower
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It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.
Jack Garratt
/
Brits
Critics
Genuine
Highlights
Honour
Importance
New Music
Significant
Acts
Alongside
Award
Nominated
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My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Former Attorney General Of Virginia
Appropriate
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Natural
Acts
Policies
Reflect
View
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When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Anecdotes
Executive Branch
Expensive
Mandates
Private Sector
Acts
Branch
Executive
Far Less
Hardly
Regulatory
Sector
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Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Writer
Acts
Wars
Sartre
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant
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Professor
Girl
Leadership
Positive
Admiration
Authority
Behavior
Bossy
Labels
Reinforcement
Acts
Assert
Banning
Discourage
Early
Engage
Receive
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While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing processed foods that are high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and calories.
Margaret Cuomo
/
Artificial
Calories
Educate
Food Industry
Ingredients
Opposition
Salt
Strive
Sugar
Acts
Advocate
Foods
Frequently
Prevent
Processed
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The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
Clint Smith
/
Abhorrence
Courageous
Illuminating
Journalism
Scholarship
Activists
Acts
Investigative
Prisons
Systems
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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
Jimmy Carter
/
39Th U.s. President
Confusion
Country
Despicable
Disgrace
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Impetus
Justify
Terrorism
Thinking
Acts
Bay
Cause
Excuses
Places
Terrorists
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In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.
Robert Mueller
/
New York
Agents
Heroism
Lost
Officers
People
Police
September
Single
Acts
Context
Firemen
Police Officers
So Many People
York
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A desire to contain extremism is a major reason why Putin offered help to the United States in battling the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. It is also why Russia maintains close relations with Shia Iran, which acts as a counterweight to Sunni powers.
Fiona Hill
/
Afghanistan
Desire
Extremism
Iran
Putin
Reason
Russia
States
Taliban
Acts
Battling
Close
Contain
Major
Offered
Powers
Relations
Sunni
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The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.
Margaret Macmillan
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Historian
Choreography
Cubism
Old World
Rebellion
Stravinsky
Acts
Certainties
Picasso
Traditions
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I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
Brad Thor
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Novelist
Fascinated
Fervor
Followers
Horrific
Inspire
Invisible
Islam
Modern Age
Significant
Acts
More And More
Significant Number
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
Garet Garrett
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Journalist
Bitter
Controversy
Debate
Endless
Forever
Impossible
Moving
New Deal
Prove
Recovery
Retard
Acts
Final
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I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.
Allen West
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Former United States Representative
Accepted
Attention
Bad Behavior
Consistently
Denial
Election
Voters
Wonder
Acts
Obama
Among
Paying
Recent
Recent Years
Rewarded
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I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.
Peter Pace
/
Armed Forces
Homosexual
Immoral
States
Believe I Believe Way
Acts
Armed
Condone
Forces
Believe Way I Believe
Individuals
Policies
Served
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