"Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction)."
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"Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails."
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"My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all."
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"We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift."
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"You know, in physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." I think that's happening."
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"When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived."
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"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go."
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"We must scrunch or be scrunched."
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"Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs."
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"The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog."
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"Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever."
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"The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them."
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"Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary."
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"There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions."
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"Let your performance do the thinking."
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"It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise."
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"For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament."
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"A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall."
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"Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important."
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"Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for."
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