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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Switzerland, Germany

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• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  Ed O'Brien

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

  Gary Kleck

  Reading, Gun, Media

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• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  Samuel Alexander

  Perception, Mind, Objects

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• Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

  Rhonda Britten

  Emotional, Body, Threat

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.20, Penguin

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• People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

  Blanka Vlasic

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.

  Oliver Herring

  Moving, Ideas, Long

  "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

  Victor Serge

  Dream, War, Party

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press

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• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Meaningful, Moving, Inspiration

  Mary Engelbreit, Patrick Regan (2006). “Artful Words: Mary Engelbreit and the Illustrated Quote”, p.53, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it.  Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

  Chip Conley

  Emotional, People, Events

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, Europe

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• Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

  Robert Fritz

  Regret, Independent, Joy

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• Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Hurt, Enemy

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• I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

  Joel Silver

  Audience, Whole, Dies

  "Interview with Exit Wounds Stars Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessy and Producer Joel Silver". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 15, 2001.

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

  John Anthony West

  Ideas, Mind, World

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• Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

  Tim McIlrath

  Chance, Action, Planets

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

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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Distance, Leader, Demise

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• To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life are endless, and you cannot be prepared for every single thing. Therefore it's better to be able to move in a natural way, and not even physically but intuitively.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Moving, Different

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• Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Significance

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Courage, Believe, Thinking

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• The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.

  Joost Meerloo

  Two, Differences, Mind

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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