Action (n.) is essentially revolutionary, for it changes things and relations and does not consist wholly with anything which was.
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Action (n.) is the necessary continuation of the written word. What one begins by reading, one must finish by acting.
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Action (n.) is necessary for achieving greatness — How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Action (n.) has but little virtue when it is the action of masses of men.
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Action (n.) seems, in man, the most natural thing next to nature, so gently does it accord with her.