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Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961)
 
Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.
- Anonymous
You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it.
- Carlos Castaneda
 
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton (1885-1945)
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West (1892-1980)
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

Ambiguity

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
- Albert Camus
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
- Moliere

Anger

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
- Lord Halifax
When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Green Ingersoll