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My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

~Art Malik

Topics: Action Cut Really Say Simple Stuff They Say Work

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Action Book Creed His Man Only Picture Picture Book

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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Action Address Carefully Common Confidence Consider Despair Haste Instead Let Us Mood Must Our Ourselves Pause Position Quiet Resolution Sober Survey Take Task Then Therefore Us Without

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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Action Armed Collective Cut Form Invite League Loyal Make May Members Necessary Off Often Relations Retaliation Some Turn Would

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But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.

~Arthur Herzog

Topics: Action Difficulty Forcing Frame Particular Pov Stay Whatever Within

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The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

~Arthur L. Herman

Topics: Action American Came Effort Factor Going Industries Injured Interesting Most Number Out Production Research Statistic Stunning Uniform War Wounded

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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Absence Action Any Begins Choice Choose Ends Innocence Need Paradise Where

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

~Arthur Rimbaud

Topics: Action Beings Brain Force Happiness Life Morality Saw Some Wasting Way Weakness

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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Action Calling Concrete Did Failed Giving Industrial Instead Labour Labour Party Nothing Party Support Take Trade Unions Workers

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Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Action Associations Begin Change Change Things Demonstrations Direct Important Marches Need People Rallies Sooner Them Things Understand Wide You

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