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• Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

  Janine Benyus

  Water, Earth, Chemical Reactions

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• The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

  Victor Grignard

  Two, Kind, Magnesium

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• I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

  Arthur Ganson

  Moving, Feelings, Matter

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• Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
  Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!

  John Otway

  Baby, Love Is, Flames

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• The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

  Pete Hegseth

  Iraq, Differences, Life And Death

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• There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

  Noah Baumbach

  Vulnerable, Knows

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• No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

  Li Mu

  Growth, Desire, Resistance

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• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• The live audience, just getting an instant reaction off of an audience is the best part[of the show]. Being in the studio and working on your songs and listening to them back and doing all that - it's a lot of fun, but having that instant reaction and being able to work and vibe with an audience is the best part.

  Drake Bell

  Song, Fun, Listening

  Source: www.dailycal.org

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• Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Blow, People, Example

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Would Be, Actors, Layers

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• It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

  Arnold Palmer

  Country, Disappointment, Airplane

  Source: query.nytimes.com

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• I dance for freedom. I dance for people's reaction more than anything. I feel great and I feel like I can do anything, say anything while I'm dancing and nobody can care. I do have times when I'm angry and I literally do slam my bedroom door and dance all around my bedroom. It's a good way of getting energy out and it's a good way of doing things, but I do it purely just to entertain other people.

  George Sampson

  Doors, People, Dancing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't like giving or receiving gifts because I don't like that initial reaction. Although I do enjoy the love and the family aspect of Christmas, and I love eating with my family and friends and reconnecting with them.

  The Miz

  Giving, Family And Friends, Receiving

  "EXCLUSIVE: Francia Raisa And Mike "The Miz" Mizanin Talk About “Christmas Bounty”". Press Conference, www.dis411.net. November 25, 2013.

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• I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally, we're still waiting to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.

  Jim Carrey

  Waiting, Want, Sticks

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.410, Penguin

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• Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Self, Bird

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Emotional, Giving

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.58, Random House

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• I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

  John Allen Paulos

  Uplifting, Science, Half

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Religious, Heritage

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• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Power, Unique, Air

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Past, Ideas

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• The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

  Carol Tavris

  Moving, Opposites, Differences

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