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Action Quotes
"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."
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"Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?"
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"Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing."
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"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
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"Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses."
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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo."
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"You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it's better to act on life than simply let life act on you."
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"He started hammering the ground with all his might and the sky opened up, raining heavily on him. He looked at the sky, heard that thunder and saw that lightning. He laughed maniacally before raising the hammer again."
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"Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life."
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"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."
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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 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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"In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things."
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
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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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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
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"I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some."
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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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"It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks."
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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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"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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"An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent."
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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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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
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"To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism."
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"Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action."
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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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"I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis."
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"When the President makes something a priority, we see action."
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