How native speakers pronounce “acts”

than the expressers predict they would. Performing random acts of kindness, reaching out and asking for help, expressing support to someone in need,

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Analyzed closely as assertions, they are what philosophers called “speech acts.” That is, language that does something other than describe the world.

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Well, oxytocin doesn't only act on your brain. It also acts on your body, and one of its main roles in your body

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One small act at a time. So what do some of those small acts look like? They might look like in Toronto,

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it stole you know, every single written book in the world, didn't it? That was one of its first acts. And as I sort of said,

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So if the objects have anything that's shiny or transparent, well, then the light acts in unpredictable ways, and it ends up with noise and holes in the images.

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