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• Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

  Javan

  Life, Attitude, Fate

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• Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

  George Washington Goethals

  Life, Philosophy, Knowledge

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• Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

  Pope Clement I

  Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

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• Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place

  John Muir

  Memories, Sleep, Light

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.818, Library of America

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• The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Nature, Responsibility, Land

  "Earth Day, 2015: Mixed Reactions" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 22, 2015.

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• When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

  Richard Savage

  Anger, Men, Way

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• In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Feelings, Animation

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• In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Attitude, Character

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• The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

  JR

  Art, Real, People

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• Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blessed, Good Things, Very Good

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.27, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

  Harold Washington

  Affirmative, Fallacy, Thirds

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.

  Galileo Galilei

  Independent, Science, Moon

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• A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Constitution, Framed

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 246), 1848.

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• Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Justice, Growth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.

  Saint Basil

  Journey, Long, May

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.112, CUA Press

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• If you want to get along, go along.

  Sam Rayburn

  Want, Ifs

  Quoted in Neil MacNeil, Forge of Democracy, the House of Representatives (1963). This was Speaker of the House of Representatives Rayburn's advice to new members of Congress.

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• Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, People, Religion

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• If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

  Maynard Jackson

  Opportunity, Level Playing Field, Guarantees

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• France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, France

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Leader

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Beautiful, Love Is

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• Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Years, Risk

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Opposites, People

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• Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Thinking, Mind

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• Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Giving, Community

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