"Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb."
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"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."
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"I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl."
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"They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it."
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"Stillness is training for action."
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"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."
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"I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time."
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"So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action."
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"It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action."
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"Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical."
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"...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality."
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"I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them."
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"It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story."
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"I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication."
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"Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results."
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"What we think about and talk about expands into action."
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"Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James."
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"Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading."
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"Our beliefs are really rules for action."
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"Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true."
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