"The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control."
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"Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness."
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"Action is thought tempered by illusion."
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"Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy."
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"A little less conversation, a little more ACTION."
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"Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action."
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"If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions."
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"The way to do some things is to do them."
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"Knowledge without action cost money"
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"Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different."
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"Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand."
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"The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions"
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"Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation."
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"Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours."
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"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
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"On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head."
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"The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do."
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"To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death."
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"In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters."
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"All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ."
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