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Action Quotes
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
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"In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities."
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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."
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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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"Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing."
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"As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord."
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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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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
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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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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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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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"In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist."
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"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
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"We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime."
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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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"Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions."
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"Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action."
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"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
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"Every human must take responsibility for his actions."
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"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
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"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
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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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"Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on the action steps you will take to prove your current thoughts wrong. Once you take consistent, habitual action the thoughts change, spontaneously."
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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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"Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion."
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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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"Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically."
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"Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning."
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"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
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