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“You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? Is this still the case?”

Book:Connected Infection

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“We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed. Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill.”

Action Death Murder Absurd Camus

Book:The Fastidious Assassins

Source: The Fastidious Assassins

“Quit making believe you don’t know. You do know. Act on it.”

Action Not Knowing

Author:Alan Cohen

“Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.”

Children Action Education Teaching Good Motives

Author:Simone Weil

“If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.”

Action Desire Motivation Miracles Miraculous Walking On Water Obey God

Author:Simone Weil

“There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.”

Action Morality Conscience Intention Karma Dharma

Author:Thiruman Archunan

“To lead from the front you must get off your behind.”

Action Leadership Procrastination

Author:Orrin Woodward

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