Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes
Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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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.
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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.
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Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.
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You beef with me, I'm gonna even the score equally - take you on Jerry Springer, and beat your ass legally.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
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I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.
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Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
