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Action Quotes
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
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"The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers."
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"I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some."
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"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
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"Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters."
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"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
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"Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline."
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"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
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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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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
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"I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action."
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"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
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"Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object."
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"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
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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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"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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"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
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"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility."
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"Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries."
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"I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action."
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"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."
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"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
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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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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing."
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"One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
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"It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it."
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"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."
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"Lets Rock Cancer's World."
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"Action makes more fortune than caution."
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
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"As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington."
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"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future."
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"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?"
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