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| Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated |
| Seneca |
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| No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. |
| Henry Kissinger |
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| Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. |
| Alexander Pope |
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| Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking |
| John Burroughs |
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| One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum |
| Walter Scott |
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| One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on. |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm |
| Jean Paul Richter |
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| Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. |
| Barbara Bush |
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| Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. |
| Anais Nin |
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| Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity (1 John 3:18). |
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| Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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