"[People] must use bold words and bold actions to rid our world of fear."
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Barbara Deming
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"imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively..."
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Immanuel Kant
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"who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more..."
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Thornton Wilder
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"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get"
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John Galsworthy
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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."
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Joseph Conrad
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"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a..."
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Thornton Wilder
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"the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true..."
Full 'George Washington' Quote
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George Washington
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"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be"
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Immanuel Kant
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"moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
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Michael Korda
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"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror"
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Doug Horton
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"Action is always better than rumination."
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Faye Kellerman
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"Action is the antidote to despair."
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Joan Baez
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without"
Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote
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Benjamin Disraeli
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"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."
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Hannah Arendt
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"Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile."
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Mary Ritter Beard
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"Actions speak more loudly than good grammar"
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Adrienne Gusoff
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"Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by"
Full 'Elliott Larson' Quote
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Elliott Larson
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"Affirmative action, based mainly on race, is counterproductive. Financial..."
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Auren Hoffman
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"All human actions are equivalent. . . and. . . all are on principle doomed"
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Jean Paul Sartre
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"Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its..."
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Paula Nelson
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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an..."
Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote
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Joseph Conrad
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Full 'Friedrich Engels' Quote
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Friedrich Engels
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"somebody, what you do is take appropriate action... You don't run away from..."
Full 'Janet Reno' Quote
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Janet Reno
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"are used to disguise,not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by..."
Full 'Gore Vidal' Quote
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Gore Vidal
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"nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will..."
Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote
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Jacques Chirac
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"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of"
Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote
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Henry David Thoreau
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"clarified by faith, and the individual's action towards its achievement...."
Full 'Thom Thompson' Quote
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Thom Thompson
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"Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The..."
Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote
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William Gilmore Simms
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"By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the"
Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote
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Richard Nixon
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote
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Charles de Gaulle
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"between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our..."
Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote
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Blaise Pascal
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"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote
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Luigi Pirandello
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"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream..."
Full 'Anais Nin' Quote
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Anais Nin
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"Effective action is always unjust."
Full 'Jean Anouilh' Quote
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Jean Anouilh
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"Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book."
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Martin Luther
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"himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it,..."
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Charles de Gaulle
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"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the..."
Full 'Thomas Fuller' Quote
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Thomas Fuller
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"Fear prevents action and action prevents fear."
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Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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"failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it...."
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Mary Kay Ash
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"popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and..."
Full 'Corazon Aquino' Quote
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Corazon Aquino
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"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to..."
Full 'Bergen Evans' Quote
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Bergen Evans
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"God considered not action, but the spirit of the action. It is the..."
Full 'Peter Abelard' Quote
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Peter Abelard
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"God isn't dead--he's just missing in action."
Full 'Phil Ochs' Quote
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Phil Ochs
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"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."
Full 'Miguel De Cervantes' Quote
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Miguel De Cervantes
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"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break..."
Full 'Indira Gandhi' Quote
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Indira Gandhi
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"its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their..."
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Karl Marx
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"Honest hearts produce honest actions."
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Brigham Young
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"hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or..."
Full 'Peter Quennell' Quote
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Peter Quennell
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"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find"
Full 'George Eliot' Quote
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George Eliot
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"you are if you have faith and plan of action...."
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Fidel Castro
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"It is time for us to regain a sense of action in the service of all French..."
Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote
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Jacques Chirac
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"disregard their talk and judge only their actions...."
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Dorothy Day
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"but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation...."
Full 'Belva Lockwood' Quote
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Belva Lockwood
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"words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results...."
Full 'Florence Nightingale' Quote
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Florence Nightingale
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"violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my..."
Full 'Indira Gandhi' Quote
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Indira Gandhi
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"karate and my overblown empty-headed action movies...."
Full 'Jean Claude Van Damme' Quote
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Jean Claude Van Damme
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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and..."
Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote
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Blaise Pascal
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"necessarily passes through the world of action."
Full 'Dag Hammarskjold' Quote
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Dag Hammarskjold
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"our control, in the same way that overt actions are: I can shake anybody by..."
Full 'W K Clifford' Quote
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W K Clifford
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"Introduces Mr. Intention to Mss. Action
and they may marry and have..."
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Joseph Cubby
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"deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had..."
Full 'Edward Gibbon' Quote
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Edward Gibbon
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"wisdom ever to commend or discommend the actions of men by their success;..."
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect...."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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"satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it..."
Full 'Charlotte Bronte' Quote
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Charlotte Bronte
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"anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and..."
Full 'Gillian Anderson' Quote
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Gillian Anderson
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"Life and death do not wait for legal action."
Full 'Daphne Dumaurier' Quote
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Daphne Dumaurier
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"penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new..."
Full 'Leo Tolstoy' Quote
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Leo Tolstoy
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"Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions."
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Thomas Kempis
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"Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or"
Full 'Homer' Quote
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Homer
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but..."
Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote
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Heinrich Heine
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"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who..."
Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy ? he's one of..."
Full 'Jay Leno' Quote
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Jay Leno
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"Never mistake motion for action."
Full 'Ernest Hemingway' Quote
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Ernest Hemingway
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"Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect..."
Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote
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Barbara Deming
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"substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character."
Full 'Robert Musil' Quote
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Robert Musil
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"is coincidence, three times is enemy action."
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Ian Fleming
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"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere"
Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote
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D H Lawrence
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"today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our..."
Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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"they will not fail to perform virtuous actions...."
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Martin Luther
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"other so that you have more avenues of action open to you...."
Full 'Howard Hughes' Quote
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Howard Hughes
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"to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go"
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Andrew Jackson
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"it's rewards until you translate it into action...."
Full 'Mohammed' Quote
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Mohammed
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"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed"
Full 'Thomas Carlyle' Quote
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Thomas Carlyle
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"think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort..."
Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote
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Ezra Pound
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"great end of life is not knowledge but action."
Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote
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Thomas Huxley
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"greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it"
Full 'Charles Lamb' Quote
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Charles Lamb
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"The merit of an action lies in finishing it to the end."
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Genghis Khan
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"truth can be learned from beholding this action."..."
Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote
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Thornton Wilder
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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
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Carl Sandberg
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"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less..."
Full 'John F Kennedy' Quote
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John F Kennedy
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"-- freedom of thought and freedom of action...."
Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote
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W. Somerset Maugham
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"Think first about the action that is right to take, and think later about"
Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote
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Barbara Deming
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"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping"
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Barbara Deming
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"difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult..."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."
Full 'Doug Horton' Quote
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Doug Horton
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"purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide..."
Full 'Tyron Edwards' Quote
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Tyron Edwards
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"have to say I prefer Shakespeare to the action stuff...."
Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote
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Keanu Reeves
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"Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it,..."
Full 'James Agee' Quote
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James Agee
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"to our power and enlarges our field of action...."
Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they..."
Full 'Frank Outlaw' Quote
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Frank Outlaw
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"learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific,..."
Full 'Benjamin Jowett' Quote
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Benjamin Jowett
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"reality, I've learned to listen only to the action...."
Full 'Judith M. Knowlton' Quote
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Judith M. Knowlton
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"many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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Abigail Adams
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"the mixed-age play group, whose natural action is almost constant..."
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David Pratt
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""conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a..."
Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote
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Helen Rowland
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"does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the..."
Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote
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Luigi Pirandello
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
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Pat Riley
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