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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

—Florence Nightingale

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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

—Immanuel Kant

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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

—Samuel Johnson

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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.

—Audre Lorde

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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding overman's capacity for evil.

—David Sarnoff

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Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

—Jerry Rubin

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In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say, "Here is the sin that makes the public sin.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven.

—Hindu saying

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The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

—Brendan Gill

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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. . . . The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented — and then do nothing.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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I went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our front door, for, as I told the storekeeper, the governor was coming here. "Aye," said he, "and the legislature too." "Then I will take two bolts," said I.

—Henry David Thoreau

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

—William Shakespeare

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When someone behaves like a beast, he says, "After all, one is only human." But when he is treated like a beast, he says, "After all, one is human.

—Karl Kraus

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

—Abraham Lincoln

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