"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count.……" — Sydney J. Harris

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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Aristotle
• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle

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