"All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us."
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"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."
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"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice."
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"From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought."
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"Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole."
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"Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do."
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"Our actions determine our dispositions."
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"It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue."
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"We become just by the practice of just actions."
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"In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong."
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"This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
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"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be."
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"If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue."
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"Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia."
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"No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention."
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"You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference."
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"Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action."
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"I will act as if I do make a difference."
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"I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."
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"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones."
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