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  • Thornton Wilder A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A life which does not go into action is a failure.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billie Jean King A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Aristotle A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Bill Clinton Abigail, do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative action program that produced Colin Powell? Yes or no? Yes or no?
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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