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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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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"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."
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
"The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this."
"A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another."
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"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
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