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An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Lion Feuchtwanger

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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Chaka Fattah

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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Richard Farnsworth

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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Edward Everett

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Force

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Richard L. Evans

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Strength

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Joseph Epstein

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I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

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.