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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
George Edward Moore
Good
Will
Statements
Moral
Kinds
Laws
Merely
Effects
Certain
Actions
Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.
George Soros
People
Regret
Competition
Drive
Otherwise
Would
Actions
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush
Religion
You
Patience
Judge
Strong
Discipline
Achieve
Somebody
Sense
Think
Kind
Religious
Purpose
Perhaps
Stability
Mean
Created
Certain
Roots
Actions
Helps
There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.
Giancarlo Esposito
Pay
Action
Every
Our
Price
Most
Reaction
Actions
Across all economies, the imperative is to take actions that boost potential output, improve inclusiveness, and strengthen resilience.
Gita Gopinath
Boost
Potential
Imperative
Output
Take
Economies
Improve
Across
Actions
Resilience
Strengthen
The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Government
Time
Property
Law
National
Lost
Took
Crisis
Law And Order
Restore
Both
Armed
Protect
Forces
Were
Order
Actions
Lives
Among
Necessary
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Graham Nash
Me
Writing
Living
Everything
Generally
Absorb
Influenced
Happens
Actions
Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded their cry long ago. The shortsighted neglect that keeps us locked up in our outrage has also kept us from viable solutions.
Greg Boyle
Suffering
Long
Despair
Neglect
Our
Locked
Locked Up
Members
Out
Solutions
Having
More
Outrage
Like
Cry
Also
Up
Child
Viable
Heeded
Shortsighted
Us
Act
Gang
Actions
Now
Keeps
Alarming
Kept
The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.
Gregory Benford
Culture
Illusion
Evil
Myth
Past
Own
Our
Outcome
Some
Rather
Merely
Error
Matrix
Itself
Karmic
Payoff
Actions
Founding
External
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo
Law
Our
Seems
Never
Make
Governs
Plans
Actions
Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel happier.
Gretchen Rubin
Myself
Inspire
Feelings
Assume
Fact
Pushing
Feel
Also
Make
Although
Often
In Fact
Happier
Act
Actions
I am a big believer in taking responsibility for your actions. I tell my kids every day to 'own it' - 'it' being whatever they've said or done. At some point in your life, you are in charge. You call the shots. You decide to eat or not eat.
Gunnar Peterson
Life
Day
You
Every Day
Responsibility
Big
Whatever
Own
Every
Kids
Tell
Charge
Eat
Some
Point
Taking
Call
Big Believer
Said
Am
Done
Being
Decide
Shots
Your
Actions
Believer
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
Reality
Better
Big
Secret
Additional
Consists
Entails
Direction
Insofar
Step
Simultaneously
Steps
Also
Discovering
Revolutionary
Tiny
The Secret Of
Strategic
Actions
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Halle Berry
Myself
Class
President
Through
Had
Cheerleader
Always
Editor
Prove
Newspaper
Actions
ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
Hamza Yusuf
Islam
Similar
Toxic
Were
Label
Very
Perversion
Militant
Who
Actions
The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.
Han Fei
Way
Ruler
Minister
Results
Proposal
Fail
Make
Match
May
Then
Actions
Enlightened
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
Haniel Long
Life
Daily
Man
Listening
Resting
Important
Sun
About
Small
Like
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
His
Motive
May
The Most Important
Moment
Actions
Daily Life
Thing
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
Hans Jonas
Responsibility
Become
Way
Criterion
Unavoidable
Civilization
Imperative
Development
Modern
Modern Civilization
Human
Human Actions
Should
Evaluate
Special
Actions
Including
Activities
Assess
Fundamental
We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
Hans Rosling
Great
Change
Changing
Otherwise
Telling
Would
Would-Be
India
Taken
Countries
Most
Within
Climate
Climate Change
Experts
China
China And India
Us
International
Actions
Suffer
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell
Democracy
Power
Military
States
Must
Civil
Constitutional
Lead
Over
Contempt
Inevitably
Issue
Ultimate
Lines
Authority
Any
Whether
Tolerate
Actions
Military Power
United
Away
United States
Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.
Helmut Kohl
National
Past
Community
Consequences
Carried
Must
Collectively
Seem
Individual
Particularly
Because
Isolated
Method
However
Often
Moves
Decisions
Might
Choice
Should
European
Actions
Belong
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Henry L. Stimson
Time
Words
Speak
Own
Our
Russia
My Own
Him
Deal
Opinion
Method
Mouths
Actions
Actions Speak
Keep
Now
Shut
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
Henry Mintzberg
Fight
Sometimes
Action
Negotiate
Projects
About
Directly
Fires
Contracts
Get
Manage
Managers
Done
Managing
Influencing
Which
Means
Organizations
Helping
Actions
Things
Units
Basically
'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
Hideo Kojima
You
Game
Somewhere
Back
Those
Solid
Gear
Part
Mission
Most
Execute
Metal
Go
Then
Your
Actions
Player
Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.
Hilary Mantel
You
Consequences
Up
Teach
Help
Actions
Grow
Grow Up
Novels
Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.
Howard Graham Buffett
Life
Hope
Needs
World
Approaching
Desperately
Approaches
Our
Our World
Gives
Through
Take
Fresh
Offers
Reasons
Actions
Chances
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