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"If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.""
"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."
"One starts an action simply because one must do something."
"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."
"God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery."
"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like."
"Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'"
"Convert life into truth."
"The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power."
"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it."
"Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?."
"An action is the perfection and publication of thought."
"The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action."
"The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other."
"Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom."
"Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?"
"The purpose of man is in action not thought."
"The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?"
"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
"No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated."
