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~ Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. ~

Ernest Gaines

~ Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ~

Herbert Hoover

~ Actions lie louder than words. ~

Carolyn Wells

~ Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ~

Arthur Miller

~ There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ~

Jane Austen

~ Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. ~

Thomas Szas

~ Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. ~

Rupert Murdoch

~ The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ~

Andy Warhol

~ All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ 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

~ Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~

John Sterling

~ The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. ~

Donald Calne

~ Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~

Dale Carnegie

~ An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. ~

Lion Feuchtwanger

~ We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work ~

William James

~ Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ The wilderness is a place of rest -- not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance. ~

David Douglas

~ Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities, and in its brief course I discern all the verities and realities of my existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the spirit of beauty. ~

Helen Keller

~ The preservation of a few samples of undeveloped territory is one of the most clamant issues before us today. Just a few more years of hesitation and the only trace of that wilderness which has exerted such a fundamental influence in molding American character will lie in the musty pages of pioneer books ... To avoid this catastrophe demands immediate action. ~

Bob Marshall

~ There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it. ~

Olaus J. Murie

~ I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. ~

MAHATMA GANDHI

~ Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will ~

Spanish Proverb

~ The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. ~

Jeffrey Sachs

~ No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. ~

Joe Slovo

~ The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both ~

Ursula K. LeGuin

~ Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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