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Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools… — Noam Chomsky
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world… — Clement Attlee
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. — Jim Sensenbrenner
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with… — Russ Feingold
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by… — Robert McNamara
Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love. — Meg Wolitzer
In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment. — Dallin H. Oaks
Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities. — Bill Gates
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will… — Bill Gates
Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual. — Bill Gates
If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them… — Larry Ellison
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute… — Paul Tillich
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. — John Henry Newman
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not… — Mike Caro
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an… — Paul Muni
If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what… — Ron Paul
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself. — Edward Abbey

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