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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. Norman Mailer
History Men Make Which Sentiments Actions
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. Peter Singer
Best Good You Judge Try Will Consequences Those Wrong Affected Accordance Whether Means Actions Utilitarian Right
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton
Happiness Care Too Much Too Our Misery Taken Principles Springs Cannot Forming Much Therefore Actions
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Saint Basil
Journey You Speak Fear Word Long Despise Our Unable Out More Unreasonable Long Journey Through Absolutely Because Fish Command Perpetuation Than Listen May Reason Who Actions Lest Even Creator Species Utter Resisting Set
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. Sara Teasdale
Wise Words Clear Steps Call Him Because Actions Whose Why
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them. Sharon Salzberg
Work Time Suffering People World Bad People Tremendous Bad Outrageous Clear Know Look Qualities Make Another Around How Very Them Us Actions Things Bring
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. Steve Jobs
Will Our Able Fact Take Computers Conditions Going Happen After Inform Ask Us Certain Actions Things Monitor
The world needs thinkers, leaders, and doers more than ever, so neglecting the minds of half the population means a lost opportunity to benefit from their ideas, contributions, and actions. Tae Yoo
Needs World Opportunity Half Lost Benefit Minds Neglecting More Leaders Ideas Doers Than Contributions Means Actions Population Ever Thinkers
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton
Great Will Be True Past Once Way Feature Never True Performed Always Erase Irish Human Human Actions Famine Which Vienna Actions Peculiar Treaty
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. Vinoba Bhave
Our We Cannot Recollect Something Written Like Infancy Off Childhood Cannot Actions Even Slate
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. Vint Cerf
Freedom History Rights Fate Internet Controlling Human Rights Other Must Citizens Collectively Similar Examples Taking Freedom Of Expression Freedoms Protect Make Sure Access Governments Human Information Declaration Actions Expression Rife Universal Harm
It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin. Vladimir Putin
Sides Extremist Suppress Any Regardless Origin Actions Necessary
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness. W. E. B. Du Bois
Good Ignorance Men Group Ruling Some Direct Individual Ideal Toward Reached Because Greatest Selfishness End Effort Human Persons Should Theoretically Many Actions Ever
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum
Whatever Own Else Our Minds Say Pundits Slip Rational Never Leaders Also Terrorists Human Human Beings Which Justification Might Actions Beings
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. William Irwin Thompson
Generation Karma Feeling Thinking Imagination Alienated Unconscious Divorced Reflected Process Actions Expressed Conscious
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. Noam Chomsky
Analyze Hidden Lies Causes Motives Governments According Intellectuals Often Intentions Expose Actions Position
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions. Michael O'Brien
God Natural Law Our Distortion Deformed Entirely Written Leading Eradicated Cannot Which Actions Beings Hence Gravely Conscience Consciousness
It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values. A. B. Yehoshua
Day Every Day Values Every Our Say Defines Israelis Actions
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions. Aaron Koblin
Relationship Management Feeling Big Think Sets Changes Our Complexity Systems See About Data More How Get Infrastructure Transparent Actions
I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world). Ada Lovelace
Day World Law Too Distinct One Day Hopes Mutual Laws Put Equations Equivalent Mathematical Brain Very Getting Short Them Cerebral Planetary Molecules Actions Gravitation Phenomena
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. Adam Johnson
Character Change Dangerous Feelings Longing Think State Punished Hidden Entire Self Had True Spontaneity Revealing Were Personal Essential Human Human Actions Censored Whispering Acting Your Populace Actions Lest Growth Desire
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea. Adena Friedman
Better Leader Willing Idea New She Learns New Information Hears Refine Malleable Listens Information Views Who Actions Her
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions. Ahmed Ben Bella
Convictions Arab Muslim Am Left Very Oriented Actions
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Run Charged Some Crossing Through Arrested Were Iran Imprisoned Afghanistan Them Actions Al-Qaeda
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preach Own Others Elsewhere Responsibilities High Moral Wrong Institution Authorities American Department Done Act Stand Actions Even Each Compare Platform Guantanamo Basis
My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence. Alan K. Simpson
Confidence Inspire Parole Redemption Always Officer Did Capacity Actions Even Believed
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