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natural action
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.»
Author: St. Jerome
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Actors and acting
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act as, General will, maxim, natural action, natural law
«ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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natural action, natural laws, the Action
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Teachers and teaching
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accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
«Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Beauty
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bystander, bystanders, decent, graceful, heroic, natural action, natural causes, place setting, The Mark
«In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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invert, inverted, madam, madams, motives, natural action, natural process, systems, The Mirror, undisguised