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		So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Plouffe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Deida
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arvid Carlsson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Shana Alexander
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Tracy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dale Carnegie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Deepak Chopra
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Casper Van Dien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Claude Adrien Helvetius
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Tabarrok
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ludwig von Mises