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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

Larry Wachowski

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Richard Thompson

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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.