"It's not enough to be busy."
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"And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit."
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"It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress."
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"So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action."
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"For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart"
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"When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself."
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"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat."
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"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
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"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth."
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death."
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"A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility"
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"The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get"
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"PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION."
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"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes."
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"Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now"
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"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified."
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"Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day."
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"Many great actions are committed in small struggles."
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"The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number."
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