"The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please."
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"Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action."
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"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."
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"Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action"
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"The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person."
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"How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action."
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"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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"Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant."
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"Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it."
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"The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it."
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"A fallow field is a sin."
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"Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show."
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"Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed."
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"Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective."
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"Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good."
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"Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all."
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"For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For what order will be left in the world, if these opposites be confounded together? Such a distinction as this, therefore, between virtuous and vicious actions, has not only been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man, but has also been frequently confirmed by his providential dispensations."
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"Courage is action, not talk."
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"Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch."
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"If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting."
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