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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but ne...

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated...

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Wilhelm von HumboldtHumanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

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We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from th...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...

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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest...

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