Action Quotes
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The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and…
— Zoe Lofgren
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
— Baruch Spinoza
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The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source…
— William Harvey
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One thing I've learned is this: Never allow yourself to hate a people because of the actions of a few. Hatred and bigotry destroyed my…
— Erich Hartmann
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God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.
— Phil Ochs
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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you.…
— Russell Banks
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where…
— Don Bluth
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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
— Peter Kropotkin
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I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she…
— Emma Goldman
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The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.
— Sergey Nechayev
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Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
— Noam Chomsky
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An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which…
— Unknown Author
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Emotion without action is irrelevant.
— Jody Williams
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
— Nora Roberts
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action:…
— Barry Commoner
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
— Harold MacMillan
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When the President makes something a priority, we see action
— Herb Kohl
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One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
— Robert McNamara
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Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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