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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. – Sophocles, Trachiniae	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. – Martha Graham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless. – William Fullbright	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning. – Leo Braeck	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter. – LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. – Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination. – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. – Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. – Jane Addams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. – John Steinbeck, East of Eden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. – Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. – Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Action is eloquence. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Action is the foundational key to all success. – Tony Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Everyone has a right to his own course of action. – Moliere	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. – Epictetus, Enchiridion	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The perfect man of action, is the suicide. – William Carlos Williams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. – Rita Mae Brown	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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