"There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines."
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"We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief."
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"Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action."
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"Effective action is always unjust."
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"If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary."
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"Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules."
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"Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others."
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"Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions."
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"Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful."
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"Speak little, do much."
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"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."
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"Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions."
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"Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action."
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"Develop a clean line of action for your leading character"
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"Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions."
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"We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own."
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"If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right."
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"Every thought and action of anyone affects everyone."
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"Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated."
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"Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion."
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