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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Action Being Memories Minds Motion Moves Music Our Seems Sets Sticks Us Very

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Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Action Being Climate Communities Demand Dirty Justice Keystone Leading Operations Over People Pipeline Push Rallies Reject Run Sands See Tar Young Young People I See

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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Action Any End Girl Going Her Hero Playing Point Save Some Unfortunately Unless Up Waiting You

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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Action Actions Belief Consequences First Force Imaginations Judgment Longer Look Make Our Place Religious Religious Belief Right Rule Sensations Square Then Trace Wrong

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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

Topics: Action Associated Basis Beneficial Departure Else Ethics False Find First Here Ideas Lose Moral Morals Now Principle Real Right Sight Something Something Else Substitute Than True Wrong

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I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.

~Francis Alys

Topics: About Accidents Action Acts Am Certain Clear Collaborators Context Develop Different Done First Game How Inspired Interested Intervene Once Potential Rules Seeing Situation Tends Very I Am

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Action End Great Knowledge Life

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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

Topics: About Action Actually America Change Even Hard Ideas Jumping Lifestyle Listen Movements Notorious Rarely Something

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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

~Francis Hutcheson

Topics: Action Best Greatest Greatest Happiness Happiness Numbers Which

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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

~Francis Quarles

Topics: Act Action Away Bold Favorite Fear Fortune Makes Necessity Resolution Takes

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