"Saying is one thing and doing is another"
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"Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event."
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"Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all."
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"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
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"It is important to pray for peace. . . But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day."
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"The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing."
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"If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage."
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"You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it."
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"[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence."
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"Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key."
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"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."
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"The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes."
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"Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions."
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"The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them."
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"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."
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"Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit."
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""You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead""
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"Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself."
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"Every natural action is graceful."
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"Action is hope. There is no hope without action."
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