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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.