"If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless.……" — Jesse Ball
"If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all."
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Jesse Ball
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13 Quotes by Jesse Ball
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The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world…
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In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others,…
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That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If…
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Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for…
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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition.…
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It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow…
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I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and…
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Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the…
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…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation…
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Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
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First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside…
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I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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