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In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

~George Packer

Topics: Act Actor Get Go Good Job Journalism Journalists Roles Should Those Too Well Who

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But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

~George Pataki

Topics: Act Budget Case Know Legislature Make Submit Then You I Can

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

~George Santayana

Topics: Act Always Another Create Equally Form Intended Means Nor Reform Shatter Sides Successful Two

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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

~George Steiner

Topics: Act Anger Baffled Bitterness Books Cleverness Creation Fills Hurry Infinitely Me Notion Occasion Our Privileges Reads Us

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The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

~George Stephanopoulos

Topics: Act Clinton Compassionate Conscious Could His History How Intelligent Manner Paradox Place President Self-Destructive Selfish Stupid

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When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.

~George Takei

Topics: Act American Answered Board Bombed Categorized Country Denied Draft Enemy Face Fight Harbor Like Our Patriotism Pearl Pearl Harbor Rushed Service Slap Volunteer Were Young Young Americans

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We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

~George Tenet

Topics: Act Against Al America Any Authority Complicity Control Could Direction Iraqi Never Operational Period Verify Qaeda

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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

~George W. Bush

Topics: Act Terrorism War

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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

~George Washington

Topics: Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy Object Our Violence War Whose Will

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If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

~George Weinberg

Topics: Accept Act Box Confession Engage Every Every Time Go Never Own Sex Sexuality Time Will You Your

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