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"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."

Man, Now, Reason, Will

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."

Morality, Children, Eyes

"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

Challenge, Difficulty, Trying, Will

"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."

Family, Children, English, Language

"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."

Money, People, Schools, Years

"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

Virtue, Thankfulness

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

Responsibility, School, Teaching

"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."

People, Character, Day

"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."

Government, Character, Future, Promise

"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."

Peace,

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"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Act, Contemplation, Enjoyment, May

"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Act,

"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Act, Consciousness, Passion

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Act, Tyranny

"Criticize the act, not the person."

Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman

Act,

"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

Frank Auerbach, German Artist

Act, Day, Order

"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs."

Joe Baca, American Politician

Act, Crisis, Energy, Help

"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Max Baer, American Athlete

Act,

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."

Michael Badnarik, American Politician

Act, Liberty, Trade