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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
"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."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"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."
"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."
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
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