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  • It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
  • Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
  • The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
  • Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
  • Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
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  • P. D. James No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • J. G. Ballard After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
    Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bill Haslam Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • William James Belief creates the actual fact.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • A. R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Northrop Frye Between religion's ''this is'' and poetry's ''but suppose this is,'' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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