"It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it."
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"You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good."
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"The profit on a good action is to have done it."
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"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
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"Love of action is not industry."
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"The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it."
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"How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?"
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"For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action."
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"If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take."
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"As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control."
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"All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment."
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"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."
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"your actions with holds your future"
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"Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life."
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"[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought."
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"I do what many dream of, all their lives"
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"And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool."
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"If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it."
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"Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma."
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"God loves only one philosophy, And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy."
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