"Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness."
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"The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind."
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"An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature."
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"The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions."
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"Every action has an ancestor of a thought."
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"A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed."
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"Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life."
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"The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar."
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"The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society."
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"He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason."
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"Actions are visible, though motives are secret."
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"Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés."
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"Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts."
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"I never thought I would get to have my own action figure."
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"Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action."
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"I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero."
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"Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?"
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"No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions."
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"If there is no action, you haven't really decided."
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"I would love to try action films."
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