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

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."

"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."

"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."

"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

"There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat."
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