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“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”

Form Individual Powerful Acting Race Existence Struggle Survival Selection Recurring Struggle For Existence

Author:Charles Darwin

“Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.”

Knows Ends Reason Action Individual Pleasure Acting Understood Greatest Pleasures

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.”

Way States Individual Acting Concern Raised China Significant Behalf Cyberspace

Author:Josh Earnest

“Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.”

Feels Children Matter Individual Force Acting Appreciate Blind Endure Ignorant Educated Acknowledge Bows Sovereignty Majesty Mandates Admitting

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.”

People Way Kind Has Beens Different Done Might Evil Names Individual Common Acting Crime Hatred Convinced Commit Civilized Persecution Humane Common Good

Author:Thomas Merton

“I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.”

Way Kind Individual Term Acting Seeing Feminism Talent Activism

Author:Jane Fonda

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Ifs Individual Acting Compassion Moral Alive Circumstances Contrary Pity Selfishness

Author:African Spir

“A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.”

Book Different Character Action Film Reading Individual Acting Depends Reader Pages Structure Dialogue Prose Internals Glimpse Screenplays Pacing Different Experiences

Author:Nicholas Sparks