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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."

"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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