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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
"Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
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