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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity… — Herbert Hoover
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant — Ernesto Che Guevara
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything… — Edward Everett Hale
Every thought I have imprisioned in expression I must free by my deeds — Kahlil Gibran
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and… — Frederick Douglass
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United… — Ernesto Che Guevara
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions — Tertullian
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos — John Dewey
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself — Unknown Author
By loving, the man acts on himself by acting on the image of his own love with Holiness and then on the Destiny which is… — Sorin Cerin
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The root of the matter½ the thing I mean½ is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence,… — Bertrand Russell
Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions… — John Macquarrie
Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs… — Avram Noam Chomsky
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since… — Albert Einstein
Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'tre only as a preparation for an action and a meaning solely in relation to a… — Unknown Author
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. — Moliere

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