“Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move.” — Allan Rufus, The Mind’s Use-Fullness Depends On The Thoughts Of The User
Tag: action
Quote of the Day
“Odysseus had himself tied to the mast and rationally relinquished his option to act, his sailors plugged their ears with wax and rationally relinquished their option to know.” — Steven Pinker, “It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999,” Nautilus (2021-11-17)
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“It don’t take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do.” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful
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“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” — George Orwell, The Freedom Defence Committee (1948-09-18)
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“I think that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire,” Memorial Day address, Keene, New Hampshire. (30 May 1884)
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“Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it’s progress.” — Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia: Voyage
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (29 April 1922)
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“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Knowledge of Character”
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“Our own distinction of right and wrong is founded too much upon the immediate convenience of the community, and does not inquire sufficiently deeply into the ultimate effect.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
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