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To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not...

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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough ...

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Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true ...

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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The yout...

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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...

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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up...

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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would b...

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In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do...

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In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just ...

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Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...

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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden...

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All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life an...

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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are...

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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Nev...

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I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"He snorted. "You're right, the only deliv...

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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

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Susan SontagRegarding the Pain of Others

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour.""Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you...

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May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be re...

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I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

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Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. C...

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I learn by going where I have to go.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

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My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the ha...

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Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneat...

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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...

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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same...

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This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

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W. Somerset MaughamOf Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...

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Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...

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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his sh...

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Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...

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Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily al...

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William JamesThe Will to Believe

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

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William Kingdon CliffordLectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

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Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do u...

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To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble depend...

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...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath...

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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands tha...

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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."