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The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

~Andy Grammer

Topics: Acts Album Audiences Big Bigger Bit Born Changes First Going Little Little Bit Look More Music Need Ok Opening Out Road Some Songs Start Think Those Were Write You

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65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when it kicked in - pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They couldn't make it.

~Ann Coulter

Topics: Acts Basically Great Great Society Home Immigrants Immigration Kicked Make Program Right Society Through Time

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We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

~Anne-Marie Willis

Topics: Acts Back Design Designs Our Our World Us While World

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Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned and bombed them in an effort to terrorize the black communities those churches anchored. One of the most egregious terrorist acts in U.S. history was committed against a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Against Anchored Been Birmingham Black Bombed Burned Church Churches Committed Communities Effort History Long Most Targets Terrorist Them Those White Who

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While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Also Been Birmingham Bombing Church Communities Forgotten Historic Impose Most Recognition Seems Series Similar Terror Those While 1990S

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Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Acts Basketball Distinct Feature Games Great Guaranteed Heroes Make Narratives Resolutions Seasons Villains

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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Acts Count How Living Make Objects Sculpture Silent Something Things Timelessness Us Use Way You

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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

~Anwar Sadat

Topics: Acts Big Big Family Family Hope Many Only Separate Society Which

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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

~Archibald Alexander

Topics: Acts Apology Attempt Being Condemnation Evil Excuse Ground Heart Instead Justify Never Our Plead Pleading Sin Sinful Valid Very Will

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

~Aristotle

Topics: About Acts Become Brave Doing Excellence Habit Just Moral Result Temperate

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