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Action Quotes
"With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity."
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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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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys."
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"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."
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"Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause."
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"I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise."
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"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
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"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."
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"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
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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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"Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read."
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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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"In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves."
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
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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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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."
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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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"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
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"But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League."
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"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."
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"I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation."
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"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient."
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"You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on."
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"The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me."
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"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."
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"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
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"We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us."
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