"According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions."
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"I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids."
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"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
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"Every man's actions belong to him."
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"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."
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"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
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"Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?"
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"Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that."
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"By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you."
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"Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man."
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"Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever."
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"There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility."
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"Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance."
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"Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do."
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"Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success."
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"The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be."
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"Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive."
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"But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys."
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"I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?""
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