"Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

Action, Courage, Effort, Will

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"Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

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"Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!"

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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Do it or not, but do."

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"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

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"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

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"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."

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"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

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"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."

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"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."

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