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«Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.»
«The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.»
Author: Giordano Bruno
| Keywords:
Contraries, contrarieties, contrariety, degrees, diversity, reaction, succession, vicissitude
«Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.»
Author: James Laver
(Critic, Fashion designer, Writer)
| Keywords:
amused, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, Italian, lifting, reaction, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, spreading, the French, The Italian
«People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.»
Author: Richard Thalheimer
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
exceed, expectations, passed, pleasantly, psychological, reaction, somehow, threshold, thresholds
«President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
address, figure out, mixed, presidential, President Bush, radio, reaction, Spanish
«Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Human nature, reaction
«There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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hardly, more or less, nearly, one-sided, Other side, reaction, The other side, wins
«Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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quietism, reaction, robbing, seemingly, submitting, swindle, swindled, swindles, swindling, terrors, There Is Nothing Left, turned out
«The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction»
«Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
body of water, Cold Water, equation, female body, fluids, in darkness, polarity, quantity, reaction, systole, The Animal
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