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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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
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"Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport." »Vince Lombardi
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"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." »Duffy Daugherty
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery." »Henry Miller
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?" »Alfred A. Montapert
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"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector
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"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it." »Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"No good plan survives contact with the enemy." »Unknown
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"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books." »Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea" »Author Unknown
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"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Jung
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." »Bill Watterson
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Jung
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"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." »Bhagavad Gita
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble." »Washington Irving
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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