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Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really,… — John Ortberg
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what… — Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications… — Edward M. Lerner
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than… — Richard Armitage
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful,… — Amy Bloom
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual… — Barry Ritholtz
Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior. — Jose Ferreira
With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading… — Colleen Hoover
On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and… — Maisie Williams
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press. — Ariel Pink
I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we… — Roxane Gay
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This… — Mona Simpson
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and… — Damien Chazelle
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. — Steve Allen
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation… — William Robertson Smith
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on… — Donald Knuth
There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books. — Terence Young
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the… — Ernest Mandel
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society. — Richard King
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… — John Nelson Darby
In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal… — Louis A. Johnson
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing… — Mary Stuart Masterson
I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation,… — Ray Walston
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. — Jonathan Lethem
I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and… — Gregory Harrison

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