"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much."
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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."
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"Action takes precedence over study."
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"Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!"
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"Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence."
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"Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation."
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"Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices."
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"The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay."
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"As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power."
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"Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action."
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"Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate"
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"Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data."
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"Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen."
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"As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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"Action is redemption."
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"I'm shockingly terrible at action movies."
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"Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running."
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"Never mistake motive for action."
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"Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought."
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