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The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded. Mark McKinnon

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Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity. Mark Pagel

Good Natural Pride Group Thinking Pleasure Thrills Emotion Selection Makes Encourages Duped Us Natural Selection Act Even Activity Coordinated Brings

Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act. Mark Rylance

Pretty Any Lack Children Much Act Helpful

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can. Mark Udall

Change Believe Possibly Protect Climate Climate Change Real Act Fast

I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party. Mark Udall

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Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform. Mark Warner

My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people. Marley Dias

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue. Marquis de Lafayette

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To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing. Marshall Allman

Love Character You Matter Compassion How To Love Act Playing

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you. Marshall Goldsmith

You World Result Become Before Control Controlling Trigger Rather More Outside Outside World Becomes Opposed Begin Than Behaviour Impulse Happening Choice Act Your Function Aware

I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act. Martin Bouygues

Time Decision Slow Long Long Time Think Weigh Pros Over Look Make Issues Quick Times Done Act Cons Things Need

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity. Martin Filler

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Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act. Martin Henderson

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Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan. Martin Landau

People About Only Had Performed Like Couple Although Always Lee Trained Subsequently Wanted Act Kazan Serious Plays

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things. Martin Parr

Art Time Great You Dancing Rigid Photographing Joining Over Years Same Same Time Double Act Stand Things Flow

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them. Martine McCutcheon

Me You Theatre Dancer Respected TV Record Sing Been Done Different Wanted Soap Them Act Different Things Actress Things

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. Mary Beard

Faith Me You More Civilisation Than Little Ask Act

I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age. Mary Berry

Age Think Cold Wear Had Cleavage Like Because Got Get Short Legs Fantastic Might Act Skirts Showing

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out. Mary Gaitskill

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient! Mary Karr

Myself Like Doomed Act Even Inconvenient

Criticize the act, not the person. Mary Kay Ash

Criticize Person Act

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements. Mary Pilon

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The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought. Maryanne Wolf

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