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• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historia...
• Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush me for following he
  o falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!" -- Carlyle...
• An honest God's the noblest work of man. -- Samuel Butle
• Thought is action in rehearsal
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -- Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
• Decision of character is one of the most important of human qualities, philosophically considered.
  Speculation, knowledge, is not the chief end of man; it is action. -- Burnap...
• A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it.
  -- Galsworthy...
• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
  -- John Galsworthy...