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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."

"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."

"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."


"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."


"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."


"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."


"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."


"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
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