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Action Quotes
"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
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"I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia."
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"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
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"Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively."
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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."
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"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."
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"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
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"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
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"Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity."
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"Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions."
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"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism."
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"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."
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"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are."
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"I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security."
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"To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness."
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"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin."
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"When the President makes something a priority, we see action."
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"Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you."
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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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"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."
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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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"General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance."
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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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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
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"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."
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"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
"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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