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[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own… — Thomas Jefferson
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave… — Herbert Croly
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? — Alexander Hamilton
My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has… — Thomas Jefferson
They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change… — Lady Gaga
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of… — Warren G. Bennis
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips — Betty Liu
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human.… — Vaclav Havel
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. — Madame de Stael
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. — Peter McWilliams
Happiness is a sort of action. — Aristotle
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. — Charles Scott Sherrington
[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary… — Marin Mersenne
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. — Albert Einstein
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and… — Vaclav Havel
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the… — Kinky Friedman
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist — Ray Davies

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