Quotes with action-adventure

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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • John Dewey We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Bruce Jackson We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Nikki Giovanni We love because it's the only true adventure.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • George L. Jackson We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Benedict Wong We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Martin Luther King We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Helen Rowland What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Georges Clemenceau When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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