"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
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"But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future."
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"For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction."
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"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."
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"The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions."
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"Never over think! Make a decision and take action!"
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"There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows."
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"Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing."
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"You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth."
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"Everyone has a right to his own course of action."
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"I shook up the world."
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"Someone else's action should not determine your response."
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"Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive."
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"Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action."
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"Allow motion to equal emotion."
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"Action achieves more than words."
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"The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take."
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"The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action."
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"Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough."
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