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~ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment ~

Arnold Hutschnecker

~ An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. ~

Carrie Wilkerson

~ Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards. ~

George Santayana

~ The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ~

Edgar Watson Howe

~ People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty ~

Richard J. Needham

~ You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. ~

Jules Renard

~ Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ~

Adam Ferguson

~ By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ~

Theodore Bikel

~ Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues. ~

Stephen Covey

~ It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. ~

Thomas Paine

~ Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. ~

John Akers

~ Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ~

Henry Miller

~ People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy. ~

Democritus

~ In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ~

Charles Babbage

~ No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. ~

Amelia Earhart

~ One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ There\'s an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. ~

Jonathan Raban

~ That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. ~

Isaac Barrow

~ No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. ~

Rachel Carson

~ As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~

Gore Vidal

~ The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions. ~

André Gide

~ A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~

Jawaharlal Nehru

~ A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~

Jawaharlal Nehru

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