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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher
Action, Actions, First, Mystery, Reason
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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."

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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet
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"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

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"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

Mark Twain, American Author
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

Thomas Jefferson, American President
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams, American Activist
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"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."

Felix Adler, German Educator
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"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist
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