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I have thought too much to stoop to action. – Adam De L'Isle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. – Pythagoras	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. – Plotinus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. – Joaquin Setanti	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. – Sharon Salzberg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People should help each other just like the ocean and earth help each other through the water wave which is an give and take action. – HyunSoung Kim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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