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Life is one long process of getting tired.

—Thomas Jefferson

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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

—Samuel Johnson

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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

—Mark Twain

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Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

—John Locke

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

—Jean Paul Richter

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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

—Herbert Hoover

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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.

—Georges Clemenceau

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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

—Florence Nightingale

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An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

—Edmund Burke

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

—Dorothy Day

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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

—Demosthenes

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

—Confucius

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Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.

—Charles De Gaulle

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