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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Facts
Thomas H. Huxley

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Action
Thomas H. Huxley

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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Failure
Thomas H. Huxley

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Goodness
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
Worth
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Acting and Actors
Jeremy Irons

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Half my life is an act of revision.
Life and Living
John Irving

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To him who is determined it remains only to act.
Determination
Italian Proverb

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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Prudence
Molly Ivins

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Strategies
Andrew Jackson

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I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.
Song and Singing
Mick Jagger

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Life and Living
Henry James

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The fatal futility of Fact.
Facts
Henry James

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Action
William James

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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
Honesty
William James

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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Belief
William James

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Belief creates the actual fact.
Belief
William James

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Belief
William James

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Life and Living
William James

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
Action
William James

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
Imagination
William James

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
Action
William James

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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
Vision
Japanese Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun