"There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us."
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"The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead."
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"Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)"
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"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."
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"Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man."
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"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny"
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"To be active is the primary vocation of man."
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"English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre."
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"One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking"
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"Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame."
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"Today's games are more forgiving in the sense that you can save your game almost anywhere, and get back into the action very quickly, whereas in POP when you died you had to go back to the beginning of the level."
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"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions."
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"Living requires but little life; doing requires much."
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"Justice is the truth in action."
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"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."
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"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."
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"Action and becoming are one."
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"You can't judge the many by the actions of the few."
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"There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
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