Action Quotes
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Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
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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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It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realize the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing - "carry a message to Garcia."
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It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
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