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

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"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

- Lillian Hellman

Awareness

"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"

- Lillian Hellman

Courage

"Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell."

- Lillian Hellman

Adversity

"People change and forget to tell each other."

- Lillian Hellman

Change

"Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all."

- Lillian Hellman

Reflection

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"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible."

- Simon

Boldness

"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing!"

- Satsuki Kiryuuin

Boldness

"There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do."

- Amy Poehler

Boldness

"I believe great people do things before they are ready."

- Amy Poehler

Boldness

"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’."

- Bryce Harper

Boldness