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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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• Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  Eric Thomas

  Communication, Vegas, Community

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• Winners take the action that others won't.

  James Arthur Ray

  Winning, Winner

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• All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Exercise

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• It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.

  Khaled Mashal

  Children, Believe, Israel

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• Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Character, Responsibility, Blame

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• All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Technology, Perfect

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Broken, Way, Return

  Lawrence Kushner (2001). “Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians”, p.61, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Stopping, World, Want

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• In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Motivation, Our Actions, Intention

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• Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Abstract, Immediate Action, Painter

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• Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Ideas, Matter

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• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Meaningful, Fields, Limits

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• An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

  Robert Genn

  Quality, Titles, Artistic

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

  Eugene J. Martin

  Art, Tree, Mind

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• Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Fear, Dark

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• The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Motivational, Courage, Differences

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• Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

  Clay Buchholz

  Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work

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• Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Acceptance, Differences, People

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• Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Animal, Ideas

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• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  Harold Washington

  Congratulations, Government, Justice

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Creativity, Law

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

  Emily Dickinson

  Hope, Heart, Patents

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

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• Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

  Steve Jobs

  Journey, Listening, Acting

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