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reaction
«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
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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)
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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)
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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
«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