"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."

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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

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Olivier Martinez, French Actor

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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."

"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."

"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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"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."

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