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Action Quotes
"The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers."
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"Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly."
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"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action."
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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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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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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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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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
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"I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action."
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"As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment."
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"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
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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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"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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"Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take."
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"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
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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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"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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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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"Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990."
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"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."
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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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"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."
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"When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran."
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"The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions."
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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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"Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one."
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
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"Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant's body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, 'the Hammer' grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could've seen the look on the face of Indomitable's captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips " intent on taking the ship for himself."
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