"Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it."
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"My actions speak louder than my words."
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"I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions."
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"Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers."
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"[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will."
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"An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences."
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"There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them."
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"Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action."
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"Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation."
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"When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being."
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"Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it."
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"It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live."
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"History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way."
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"Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?"
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"To praise great actions is in some sense to share them."
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"What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange."
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"Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]"
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"Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine."
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"Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi."
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"Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read in texts of business economics that they could just as well have a system in which the management is responsible to stakeholders."
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