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Action Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
- Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
- What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is…
- Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also…
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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- 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
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