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"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
— Albert Camus

tags: idleness, inaction, mediocrity

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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
— John Stuart Mill

tags: action, inaction

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"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: action, inaction, perseverence, progress

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"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, inaction

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