Response Quotes - Page 7

• Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Our World, Idols

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

  Alfred Bester

  Robots, Free Will, Reactions

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• [In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Violence, Looks

  Dick Cheney's Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon Followed by Q&A, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 19, 2006.

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• Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

  Frank Chodorov

  Russia, United States, Defeat

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• Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.

  Alex Garland

  Writing, Self, People

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• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Our World, Political, Degrees

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• It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hard Work, Hard

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, People, Lines

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

  John Cusack

  Media, Black, Intellectual

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

  Ian Hacking

  Two, Way, Problem

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!

  Alan Keyes

  Believe, Army, Order

  Alan Keyes's Speech at Rally in Defense of Marriage in Boston, Massachusetts, www.keyesarchives.com. May 14, 2004.

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• Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

  Paul Krugman

  Successful, Long, People

  Paul Krugman (2009). “The Conscience of a Liberal”, p.268, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Fans, Mercury

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• Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Iran, Oil, Trying

  "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast on peikoff.com, June 28, 2010.

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• My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

  Natalie Portman

  Skin Color, Land, Skins

  Jewish Chronicle, July 06, 2007.

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• I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Color, Opposites

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• When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.

  Erik Naggum

  Mistake, Insane, Doe

  "Lisp's future". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 31, 2004.

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• I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.

  Berton Braley

  Art, Believe, Hard Work

  Berton Braley (1934). “Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel”

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• We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.

  Bhavin Turakhia

  Program, Witness, Flattered

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• Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

  Nicholas Serota

  Art, Sight, Understanding

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• This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.

  J. Brent Bill

  Spring, Heart, People

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• It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Lying, Emotional, Artist

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• The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

  Gerald Brommer

  Inspiration, Ideas, Purpose

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• Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Ideas, Personality

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