"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
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"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
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"Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you."
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"Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction."
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"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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"Either move or be moved."
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"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."
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"Nothing happens until I make it happen."
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"[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing."
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"Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us."
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"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
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"Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words."
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"Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action."
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"Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest."
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"My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions."
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"Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."
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"Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
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"Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason."
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"The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions."
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"A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions."
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