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• Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response - again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists.... It does take practice though.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sorry, Feelings, Trying

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• Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

  Abdallah II

  Effort, Tables, Blame

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Speak

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

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• I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

  Kirstie Alley

  Born, Audience, Sitcom

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• When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Play, Conversation

  Interview with Michael Tedder, music.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Beautiful, Christian, Two

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Moving, His Love, Way

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Character, Reality

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• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Issues, Political

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• The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, Balance

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• It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Facts, Strategy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

  Lewis Black

  People, Insane, Sometimes

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• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

  John Boehner

  Cities, Soldier, Rockets

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• As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.

  John O. Brennan

  Self, Law, Use

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". John O. Brennan's address at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

  Tom Brokaw

  Book, Generations, Greatest Generation

  "Tom Brokaw signs on for two more books". www.today.com. January 31, 2005.

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• There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character, Hollywood, Misperception

  "Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2013.

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• I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.

  John Cena

  Believe, Thinking, Guy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

  Margaret Chan

  Opportunity, Community, Window

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

  Diablo Cody

  Strong, Emotional, Childhood

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• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Silence, Poetic, Flattering

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Pain, Men

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• The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

  Sylvia Earle

  Strong, Law, Numbers

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• The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Doctors, Phones, Tools

  "Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

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• I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

  Jim Elliot

  Principles, Lord, Impulse

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Race, Class

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