"The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others."
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"Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er.""
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"Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."
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"Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!"
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"When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates."
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"If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart."
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"Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred."
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"Be persistent in good actions."
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"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."
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"Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much."
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"Be a practical dreamer backed by action."
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"The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience."
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"Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible."
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"The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts."
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"If one has got power, one must manifest it in action."
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"It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else."
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"All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now."
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"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
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"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."
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"Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]"
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