"Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential."
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"An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened.""
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"When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing."
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"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it."
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"Honor is self-esteem made visible in action."
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"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
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"And right action is freedom From past and future also."
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"Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring."
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"The burned hand teaches best."
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"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
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"Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required."
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"Thought and action must never part company."
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"Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts."
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"The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history."
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"Dissent without action is consent."
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"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
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"...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it."
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"If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience."
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"Action is movement with intelligence"
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"Hurry is the weakness of fools."
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