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"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."
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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."
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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."
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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"With everything there is what to do."
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"Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best."
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"You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet."
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"Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it."
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"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
Abortion
"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
Negative
"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."
Action
"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."
Pet
"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."
Fact
"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law."
Men
"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
Universe
"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."
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"Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows."
Lady
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
Vocation
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