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«Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.»
«Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Books | Keywords: Action The, waste paper
«Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | About: Meditation | Keywords: Action The
«Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!»
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
«One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action /the ability to pass directly from thought to action.»
«All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''»
«I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas»
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
«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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