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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Awareness without action is worthless.
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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
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Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
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But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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