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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."
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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."

"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."

"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."

"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."


"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."


"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."


"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."


"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."


"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."


"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."


"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."


"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."


"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
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