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Action Quotes
"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."
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"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
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"The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity."
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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
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"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."
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"Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan."
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"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes."
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"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
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"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."
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"The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers."
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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
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"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
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"Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action."
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"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."
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"Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing."
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
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"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
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"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
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"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them."
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
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"Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990."
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"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake."
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"I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while."
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"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."
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