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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.


Thomas Carlyle

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AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
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DAN BRIODY Talk is cheap, action valuable.
JIM GENOVESE George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Education does not end at any point in our lives; it is an ongoing journey to be carried with us eve...
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WILLIAM H. SEWARD The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
THOMAS CARLYLE