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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

~Charles Evans Hughes

Topics: Action Because Controls Country Courses Forces Great Nation Opinion Public Public Opinion Publicity Sets

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

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Accompanied Action Capacity Exists Mind Superior Thinking Torture Unless

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

~Charles J. Givens

Topics: Action Failures Inaction Losses Past Reason Use

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If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Action British Committed Courage Course Doubt Nation Skill Support Them Then Troops Will

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We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Action Active Advance Agenda Creative Determined Equally Government Individuals Interfere Liberal Liberties Lives Need Play Role Temptation Where Which

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

~Charles Lamb

Topics: Accident Action Found Good Good Action Greatest Greatest Pleasure Know Out Pleasure Stealth

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The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are so simple that with the proper cooperative action the American people collectively can easily place this wonderful country of ours in the position that it is so well qualified to hold among the nations of the world.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Action American American People Among Any Collectively Cooperative Country Discussion Easily Every Fundamental Hold Little Nations Need Ours People Place Position Principles Proper Prosperity Qualified Simple Understood Well Wonderful World

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The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Beliefs Different Different Beliefs Distinguished Essence Establishment Give Habit Modes Rise Which

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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Action Belief Due Effect Exercise Final Forms Future Influence Longer Mental Nature Only Our Part Stadium Thinking Thought Which Will

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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

~Charles Scott Sherrington

Topics: Action Antagonistic Central Confined Extensive Finds Further However Likely Make Muscles Nervous Solely Study Too Ubiquitous

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