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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
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Strong convictions precede great actions.


James Freeman Clarke
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I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'


Melissa George
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.


Wendell Phillips
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.


Thomas a Kempis
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.


Karl Kraus
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.


Henri Bergson
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Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.


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


David Viscott
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.


Bryant H. McGill
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I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'
Sarah Snook
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.


John Galsworthy
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
F. Sionil Jose
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Benazir Bhutto
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Ferdinand Mount
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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.


Isaac Newton
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
Learned Hand
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I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
Geoff Stults
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