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So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to… — Ken Wilber
You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty… — Robert Crumb
Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything… — Ann Wigmore
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night… — Isaac Asimov
We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady. — Mitt Romney
The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people. — Amanda Palmer
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,… — Ernest Hemingway
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like… — John Mulaney
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes… — Prince
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever… — David Foster Wallace
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a… — Andre Malraux
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all… — Tao Lin
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could… — Fritz Kreisler
I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at… — Alan Greenspan
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural… — Kenny Smith
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… — Herbert Spencer
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -… — Douglas Adams
Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. — Milton Friedman
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the… — William Howard Taft

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