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581.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

- James Branch Cabell

582.

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

- James Madison

583.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

584.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

- James, William

585.

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

- Jan Ehrenwald.

586.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

- Jane Addams

587.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

588.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

589.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

- Jean de la Bruyere

590.

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.

- Jeff Melvoin

591.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

- Jeremy Bentham

592.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

- Jim Morrison

593.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

- Jim Sorensen

594.

Action is the antidote to despair.

- Joan Baez

595.

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

- Joan Boysenko

596.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

597.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

598.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

- John Andrew Holmes

599.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

- John Dewey

600.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)

- John F. Kennedy