"Speech is always bolder than action."
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"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."
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"Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent."
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"He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success."
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"Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned."
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"Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?"
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"All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority."
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"Your actions speak so much louder than words."
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"I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises."
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"It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend."
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"Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference."
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"I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature."
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"He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?"
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"There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action."
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"Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance."
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"What is correct action in a deteriorating world?"
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"Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action."
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"I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late."
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"There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience."
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"The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted."
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