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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Government
Action
Every
Equal
Opposite
Government Program
Program
I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.
Brie Larson
Faith
Safe Place
Comedy
Action
Think
Films
Drama
Types
Those
Folklore
Give
Allow
Mythology
Feel
Safe
Sort
Question
Questions
Up
Different
Movie
Bigger
Place
Interested
Us
Really
Pop
Action Movie
Different Types
Why
Here
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
Bruce Springsteen
Time
Consistency
Thought
Long
Action
Purpose
Long Period
Over
Demands
Period
Audience
Getting
Sustaining
Hard
It's easy to feel helpless - like you can't fight the tide. But remember: small actions can have a huge impact, and one person like you can inspire others to action.
Celeste Ng
You
Fight
Inspire
Remember
Action
Others
Easy
Impact
Small
Feel
Like
Tide
Huge
Huge Impact
Person
Actions
Helpless
When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.
Cesare Beccaria
Judge
Law
Sense
Nothing
Action
Once
Determine
Laws
More
Written
Written Law
Observed
Left
Than
Fixed
Literal
Whether
Should
Code
Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.
Chuck Norris
You
Together
Action
Classic
Get
Legends
Anytime
To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.
Clint Smith
Action
Society
Tool
Adequate
Response
Systemic
Has-Been
Some
More
Clear
Towards
Looting
Equitable
Been
Affirmative
Itself
Affirmative Action
Semblance
Decades
Us
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
Cornel West
Responsibility
Action
Delicate
Individual
Between
Institutional
Without
Always
Conditions
Very
Personal
Any
Personal Responsibility
Actions
Thing
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.
David A. Bednar
Faith
Three
Action
Other
Assurance
Evidence
Spirals
Ongoing
Rather
Like
Continuous
Discrete
Influence
Process
Upward
Separate
Cycle
Each
Elements
Interrelated
No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
Donella Meadows
Government
Goals
Wake Up
Insist
Nation
Action
Resolve
Way
One-Way
Drifting
Only
Only One Way
Results
Outrage
Higher
Tension
Performance
Between
Wake
Up
Expectations
Get
Intention
Stop
Low
Standards
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones
You
Action
Other
Attached
Primarily
Institution
Nor
Person
Movement
Order
Conversion
Beliefs
Code
Things
Set
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
Edward Livingston
Hope
Knowledge
Responsibility
Action
Both
Through
Come
Means
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John
You
Legal
People
Action
Libel
Some
About
Cases
Laws
Write
Take
Know
Course
Because
Afford
Against
Mean
Them
Who
Things
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
Passion
Thought
Action
Society
Marks
Ability
Directly
Pass
Truly
Midwife
Vigorous
Dispense
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright
Ethics
First
Lose
Action
Else
Beneficial
Sight
Moral
Find
Morals
Something
Something Else
Wrong
True
Ideas
Principle
Real
False
Than
Departure
Substitute
Now
Right
Here
Basis
Associated
Consequent
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
Francis Chan
Change
Action
Rarely
About
Something
Lifestyle
Ideas
Jumping
America
Listen
Movements
Hard
Notorious
Even
Actually
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert
People
Action
Our
Our Lives
Those
Distrust
Only
Most
Course
Improve
Want
Who
Lives
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Frank Murphy
Freedom
Religion
Thought
Freedom Of Speech
Action
Press
Freedom Of Religion
Double
Aspect
Speech
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller
Work
Knowledge
Three
Action
Object
Factors
Doer
Motivate
Senses
Which
Basis
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
Thought
Responsibility
Action
Readiness
Springs
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
George B. McClellan
You
Trust
Country
Action
Our
Know
Arrived
Moment
Save
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
George Matthew Adams
Soul
Peace
Sports
Heart
Courage
Water
Wind
Feeling
Few
Action
Gives
Blending
Well
Return
Calls
Sailing
Heart And Soul
Quick
Itself
Very
Afford
Boat
Teaches
We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.
Gina Raimondo
Work
Action
More
Results
Got
Going
Just
Keep
Keep Going
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
Gloria Steinem
Government
Internet
Power
Action
Military
Twitter
Corporate
Email
Danger
Online
Real
Go
Sending
Centers
While
Confusing
Right
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
Gordon Brown
Money
Collective
Action
Hiding
Haven
Could
Safe
Safe Haven
Islands
Tax
Places
Mean
Union
European
European Union
Treasure
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.
Gwen Ifill
School
Political
Political Power
Power
Action
Brought
About
Laws
Fair
Well
Housing
Shifts
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Landmark
Population
Challenged
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