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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.


Adam Johnson


#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.


Chow Yun-Fat


#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.


George W. Bush


#achieve #actions #certain #created #discipline

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.


Douglas Feith


#actually #drives #emphasize #israeli #officials

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.


Margaret Chan


#alert #business #business community #certain #change

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.


William Kingdon Clifford


#belief #beyond #even #every #experience

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.


Andrew Cohen


#actions #capable #consider #dishonorable #effect

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.


Larry Flynt


#aside #distractions #doubt #encounter #following

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.


Galileo Galilei


#hidden #indifferent #man #nature #reasons






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