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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. — Hannah Arendt
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave… — Aristotle
Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has… — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance… — Aristotle
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius

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