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The thing you take instead of the breath you were about to.

means A thing done — a movement, deed, or act, as opposed to mere talk or thought.

from From Latin actio, 'a doing,' built from agere meaning 'to drive, lead, or do.' That same root agere drives a whole family of English words — agent, agenda, act, react — all tracing back to the basic idea of setting something in motion.

courtroom use
a lawsuit is literally called an action
film convention
director yells it to start the fake truth
physics debt
every action owes an equal opposite reaction
procrastination's enemy
the only cure with zero side effects
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