"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."

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"I write, but I also act."

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

"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."

"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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

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"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

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