"In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."

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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

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"The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."

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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

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"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

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"Effective action is always unjust."

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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

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"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation."

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"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."

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"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

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"Well begun is half done."

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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

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"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

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"It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "

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"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."

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