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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. — Arthur Erickson
Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a… — Nicholas Samstag
We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human… — Daniel Ortega
Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the… — Emmet Fox
God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make… — Billy Graham
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. — John Townsend Trowbridge
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can… — Janet Reno
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… — Dick Thornburgh
Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but… — Deepak Chopra
I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and… — Randy Forbes
The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search. — Jim Rohn
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out… — Friedrich Nietzsche
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or… — Ambrose Bierce
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually… — John Ashcroft
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us. — George W. Bush
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one… — Tim Lee
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have… — Julian Sanchez
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. — Tom Peters
Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. — Richard Branson
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition. — Diane Sawyer
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the… — Oscar Milosz
That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act? — Shannen Doherty
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill… — Chellie Pingree

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