"Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action."
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"I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond."
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"There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action."
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"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."
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"To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them."
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"Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall."
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"Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow."
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"Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction."
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"Successful people are action oriented."
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"Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions."
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"You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence"
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"Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action."
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"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them."
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"For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing."
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"We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
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"I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it."
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"Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!"
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"...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action."
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"The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action."
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"It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to."
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