Example Of Authentic Patriotism

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Stephen Kiernan once told “Authentic patriotism is not about you, what you believe or what you think it's right... Authentic patriotism is not an opinion, It’s an action.” I can honestly say both are important because thinking are thoughts and actions are acts but actions are what's more important. A person may think something but not act on it for whatever fear they have.
In the first place, thinking always gets a person confused on what they say. For example if someone tells you something and you're thinking about it then they tell you something different then something different again and it's just words coming out people's mouth and not knowing what to believe. “If thinking is bound up with action, then the task of getting an adequate

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