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Thursday, 15 May 2008
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"A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind."
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Beecher, Henry Ward
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Calvin, John
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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Gibbon, Edward
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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Havel, Vaclav
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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Galsworthy, John
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
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Clemenceau, Georges
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
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Robbins, Anthony
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A well begun is half ended.
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Plato
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
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Kant, Immanuel
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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James, William
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