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“He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.” Confucius, Analects
“He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.” Confucius, Analects
“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.” George Orwell, 1984
“I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“in order to ascertain the real opinions of such, I ought rather to take cognizance of what they practised than of what they said” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I...” Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

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