"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

Action, Mind, Thinking

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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

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"If you are indecisive, make decisions quickly and act in accordance with your decisions you will be able to acquire a new habit."

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"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."

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"Men and women that don't respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses."

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"Dreamers Can."

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"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."

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"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

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"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

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