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• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

  Charles James

  Real, Corazón, Hombres

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• I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cities, Faces, Tribes

  Ellen Goodman (1986). "Cerca de casa", Fawcett Books

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• Moda, líder de un tren de chatt'ring,
  A quien el hombre, por su propio mal, permite reinar.
  Que cambia y cambia todas las cosas menos su forma,
  Y degradaría su voto a un simio,
  El padre fructífero del abuso y el mal,
  tiene un dominio usurpado sobre su lengua,
  Allí se sienta y lo incita con su propia desgracia,
  Prescribe el tema, el tono y la mueca,
  Y cuando lo logra en su escuela descarriada,
  Llama caballero a quien ha hecho tonto.

  William Cowper

  Fashion, Hurt, School

  William Cowper (1837). “Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid”, p.217

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• ... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Philosophy, People, Evil

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• Creo que todo el mundo, alguna vez, sueña que está leyendo papeles, libros o cartas; en cuyo caso la invención incita tan fácilmente que la mente se impone y confunde sus propias sugerencias con la composición de otra.

  Joseph Addison

  Dream, Mistake, Believe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.59

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• The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  Hannah Más

  Spirit, Action, Resolve

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.338

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• La mayor parte de lo que decimos y hacemos es innecesario: elimina lo superfluo y tendrás más tiempo y menos molestias. Así que en cada caso uno debe preguntarse a sí mismo: "¿Es esto, o no, algo necesario?". Y la eliminación de lo innecesario debe aplicarse no sólo a las acciones, sino también a los pensamientos: entonces tampoco habrá acciones redundantes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Tiempo, Acción, Innecesario

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). "Meditaciones", p.70, Penguin UK

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• Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Deeds, Urgent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

  Saadi

  Heart, Sorrow, Consolation

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• A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

  Robert Genn

  Curiosity, Ability, Composition

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• Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

  Stella Adler

  Feelings, Action, Emotion

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.139, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Aprende a anular los intereses menores en favor de los grandes, y a hacer generosamente todo el bien que el corazón te impulse; nunca se perjudica a un hombre actuando virtuosamente.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Cristiano, Corazón, Hombres

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• Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

  George Washington

  Men, Bravery, Rewards

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.154

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• Si el atributo del gobierno popular en la paz es la virtud, el atributo del gobierno popular en la revolución es a la vez virtud y terror, virtud sin la cual el terror es fatal, terror sin el cual la virtud es impotente. El terror no es otra cosa que justicia, pronta, severa, inflexible; es, pues, una emanación de la virtud.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Government, Justice, Revolution

  Speech to the National Convention on February 05, 1794. "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923." Book by Edward Hallett Carr, Volume 1, p. 154, 1951.

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• Nadie cree ni por un momento que el embargo vaya a impulsar al pueblo iraquí a levantarse contra Sadam Husein.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Creer, Gente, Hussein

  "Nuevo milenio, viejo crimen: esas sanciones contra Irak" por Alexander Cockburn, freepress.org. 12 de enero de 2000.

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• All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

  Simon Winchester

  Home, Japan, Broken

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• I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

  Mark Twain

  Natural, Clock, Wanted

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.306, Univ of California Press

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• The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Sacrifice, Self

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Desde el punto de vista técnico, dado que nuestras complejas sociedades son muy susceptibles de sufrir interferencias y accidentes,ofrecen sin duda oportunidades ideales para una rápida interrupción de las actividades normales. Estas perturbaciones pueden tener, con un gasto mínimo, consecuencias considerablemente destructivas. El terrorismo global es extremo tanto en su falta de objetivos realistas como en su cínica explotación de la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas complejos.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Oportunidad, Meta, Cínico

  "La filosofía en tiempos de terror". Libro de Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

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• True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

  Thomas Gordon

  Pain, Character, Men

  "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.

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• I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Want, Impatience

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• El amor, ya sea sexual, paternal o fraternal, es esencialmente sacrificial, e impulsa a un hombre a dar la vida por sus amigos.

  George Santayana

  Amor, Hombres, Dar

  George Santayana (1934). "Pequeños ensayos extraídos de los escritos de George Santayana", p.99, Рипол Классик.

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• I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Betrayal, Party

  Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Jobs, Practice, White

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• El terror no es más que justicia, pronta, segura e inflexible.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Terror, Secure

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