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My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

~Cliff Stearns

Topics: Accounts Act Bank Deposit Earned Interest Legislation Relief Savings Simple Simply Tax Tax Relief Taxation

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The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

~Cliff Stearns

Topics: Act Spy

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The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

~Cliff Stearns

Topics: Act Balance Benign Between Caused Consumers Course Designed Harm Legitimate Misused Preserving Protecting Purposes Right Same Same Time Spy Still Strikes Technology Time Uses While

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I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

~Clint Howard

Topics: Act Because Bills Car Different Doctors Doing Downside End Exciting Extremely Gotta Insecure Insurance Job Love Occasional Pay Taxes Upside Vacation Wonderful Year I Love

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When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over again, the very act of waking up to a world complicit in your distress can feel like a herculean task. But black people are human beings, just like everyone else.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Act Again Beings Black Discrimination Distress Else Everyone Everyone Else Fear Feel Historical Human Human Beings Just Like Manifest Oppression Over People Policing Task Themselves Time Up Very Waking Waking Up World Your

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Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

~Clive Anderson

Topics: Acorn Act Children Difficult Grow Idea Interesting Legacy Like Oak Older Older People People Planting Tree Trees Will

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My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

~Clive Davis

Topics: Act Ambitious Basic Beyond Bound Boy Brooklyn Go Hard-Working Jewish Mobile Parents Schoolwork Simply Things Way Were Your

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A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

~Clyde Edgerton

Topics: Act Adult Becoming Behave Being Being Happy Chances Child Definition Fruitful Full Guiding Happy Her His Increasing Lead Might Secure Thus Ways Working Young Young Adult

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

~Coco Chanel

Topics: Act Aloud Courageous Most Still Think Yourself

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My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

~Coco Martin

Topics: Act Films Indie Job Mainstream Whether

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