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• The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Responsibility, Secret, Ability

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• Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Character, Self, Discipline

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

  Victor Hugo

  Terrible, Motive

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to do the same for children. It's been a long time coming after a couple years doing this. But we're excited that it's now hitting shelves. We learned a lot going through the process of writing it, so we can't wait to see what happens.

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Couple, Book

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We dare them to apply a principle for 40 days to their kids. They don't have to be 40 consecutive days...Already people that even tested the book for us had amazing responses from their kids.

  Alex Kendrick

  Book, Kids, People

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother's womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg's response was "Why don't you just act."

  Josh Brolin

  Mother, Wall, Reading

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

  Karen Rose

  Emotional, Plant Medicine, People

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that also.

  Karen Rose

  Healing, Plant Medicine, Needs

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.

  Mark Durie

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• You have to understand your own psychology. You have to understand that human beings weren't really designed to invest. We have all these emotions that are appropriate responses if you're being chased by a tiger, but they're terrible responses if you've got a 30-year time horizon to think about investment or when you're trying to manage investment over 30 years.

  William J. Bernstein

  Thinking, Years, Psychology

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work."

  Mark Strong

  Character, Thinking, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Frustration, Thinking, Would Be

  "Public Radio International" Intreview, October 2006.

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• The Healthiest Response to life is Laughter.There is always a reason to be grateful.You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.Your soul cherishes every aspect of your life.There is a Plan, and your soul knows what it is.Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.Evolution leads the way through desire.Freedom is Letting Go.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Laughter, Grateful

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• I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Trying, Sentimental

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• I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response, the Buddha taught, assures that pain does not become suffering. And, unclouded by the tension of struggle, the mind is able to assess clearly and respond wisely.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Teacher, Pain, Struggle

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• Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

  Hugh Prather

  Needs, Sometimes, Break

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, Conari Press

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• I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  People, Used

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• Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

  Dennis Miller

  Laughter, Laughing, Intellectual

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• We begin to change the dynamic of our relationships as we are able to share our reactions to others without holding them responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices & actions. We are responsible for our own behavior and we are not responsible for other people's reactions; nor are they responsible for ours.

  Harriet Lerner

  People, Choices, Feelings

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• It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

  Dave Matthews

  Community, Musician, Looks

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• I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible honor means that I represent the piss and vinegar, the energy, the defiance, the musicality of the Funk Brothers and Motown and Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, Brownsville Station and Grand Funk Railroad and Eminem and Jack White and Kid Rock - are you kidding me?

  Ted Nugent

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• Gravity is a response to geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Gravity, Geometry

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