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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
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"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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