| Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. -- Charles Evans Hughes |
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Hughes, Charles E.Era:
1862 |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
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AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Author:
Lavater, Johann KasparEra:
1741 |
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| action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. -- Henri Frederic Amiel |
| Author:
Amiel, Henri FredericEra:
1821 |
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| A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| Be great in act, as you have been in thought. -- Shakespear |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author:
Beecher, Henry WardEra:
1813 |
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| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author:
Mill, John StuartEra:
1806 |
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| Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. -- Cervantes |
| Author:
CervantesEra:
1547 |
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| It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, Robert LouisEra:
1850 |
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| action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred A. Montapert |
| Author:
Montapert, Alfred A.Era:
1910 |
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| The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| He who considers too much will perform little. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author:
Schiller, Johann VonEra:
1759 |
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| Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles De Gaulle |
| Author:
De Gaulle, CharlesEra:
1890 |
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| With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools. -- John Dewey |
| Author:
Dewey, JohnEra:
1859 |
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| The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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