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Action Quotes
"For each of our actions there are only consequences."
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"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it."
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"The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action."
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"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848."
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"Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear."
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"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
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"I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture."
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"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."
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"When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually."
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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action."
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"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."
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"As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action."
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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
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"It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline."
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"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
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"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression."
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"I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive."
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"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself."
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"Intentions count in your actions."
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"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it."
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"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."
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"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."
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"Caleb! The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt. He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldn't breathe. "Alex, I can't."
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"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable."
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"We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something."
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"I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically."
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"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
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