"Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause."
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"To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right."
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"From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action"
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"Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions."
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"Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it."
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"In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance."
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"Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person."
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"Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws."
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"What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made."
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"The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head ... will dissolve and you will forget about it"
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"Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!"
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"The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content."
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"Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something."
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"I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive."
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"I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity."
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"One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened."
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"Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you."
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"The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments."
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"I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings."
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"The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action."
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