"Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action."
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"Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them."
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"All human happiness and misery take the form of action."
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"Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words."
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"The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action."
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"It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us."
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"Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you."
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"And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears."
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will."
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"Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula."
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
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"Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness"
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"Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained."
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"Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law."
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"Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior."
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"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."
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"But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars."
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"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
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"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
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"Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action."
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