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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Isaac Barrow
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.


Samuel Johnson
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Richard Whately
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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.


Douglas Horton
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
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I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'


Melissa George
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.


Natalie Clifford Barney
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.


Wendell Phillips
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
John Fiske
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.


Henri Bergson
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As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.


Herschel Walker
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.


Karl Liebknecht
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You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.
Russell Simmons
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I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.


Norman Wisdom
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.


John Galsworthy
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.


Otto von Bismarck
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I am rather inclined to silence.


Abraham Lincoln
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At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.


James Levine
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