#actions

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too. ↗

— Regina King

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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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