"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
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"No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive."
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"Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!"
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"I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean."
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"The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action."
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"It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it."
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"Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves."
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"The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text."
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"Ideas without action are useless."
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"Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements."
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"They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen."
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"It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you."
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"This nation asks for action, and action now."
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"When you start taking consistent action, you will see results."
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"Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action."
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"Leadership is character in action."
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"He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions."
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"We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on."
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"Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present."
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"We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn."
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