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Letter "A" » Action
«Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
affirmative, affirmative action, approach, develop, development, doors, employment, experienced, groups, individuals, members, PER, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, standing, systematic, The Doors
«Affirmative action is the attempt to deal with malignant racism by instituting benign racism»
Author: Elliott Larson
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
affirmative, affirmative action, benign, instituted, instituting, malignant, racism
«All men of action are dreamers.»
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance,
Habit
| Keywords:
Actions, causes, Cause of action, chance, compulsions, desire, habit, human action, passion, reason, seven, sevens, these
«All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Failure
| Keywords:
doomed, equivalent
«Ah just act the way ah feel.»
«All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
fog, grotesque, grotesques, moonlight, so to speak, tends, tends to, twilight
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance
| Keywords:
Cause of action, compulsion, compulsions, human action, seven
«Act well your part, there all the honour lies.»
«All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Learning,
Thinking
| Keywords:
attain, at the same time, mastery, scholarship, Shakespeare, vain, Wordsworth
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