Quotes 381 till 400 of 508.
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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
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There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
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