"There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it."
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"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet."
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"You've got to love what you do to really make things happen."
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"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
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"The cure for grief is motion."
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"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation."
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"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind."
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"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
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"It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it."
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"All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion."
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"What holds attention determines action."
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"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
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"Emotion is created by motion."
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"Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa."
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"Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions."
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"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."
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"You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action."
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"O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine."
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"Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action."
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection."
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