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"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."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."
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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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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."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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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."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"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."
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"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
Power
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
Truth
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
Nature
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
Society
"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
War
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
People
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Being
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Man
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
War
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