#human action

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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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

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. ↗

— James Montgomery

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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