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~ Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011. ~

Doc Hastings

~ The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ~

Frank Herbert

~ The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ This is a great result for the United States but also for all democracies. I think that we should not lower our guard because this could provoke reactions in the world of terrorism. ~

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

~ Artthe meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. ~

Lawrence Durrell

~ 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. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~

John Quincy Adams

~ Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness ~

John Sterling

~ Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. ~

E.M. CIORAN

~ Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ~

Kenneth Clarke

~ Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. ~

Joseph Conrad

~ Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. ~

Aristotle

~ To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg. ~

James Thomas

~ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~

John Quincy Adams

~ Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. ~

Giorgos Seferis

~ At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ~

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

~ In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life. ~

Jane Addams

~ The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. ~

William Irwin Thompson

~ The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn\'t take action. ~

Ali bin Abu-Talib

~ When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. ~

Woody Allen

~ Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement. ~

Aristotle

~ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire ~

Aristotle

~ Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. ~

John P. Avlon

~ The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world. ~

Albert Barnes

~ The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ~

Thomas H. Huxley

~ There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. ~

Seneca

~ There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. ~

George Bernard Shaw

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