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• When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

  Richard Norton Smith

  Government, Talking, Disaster

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• I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.

  Victor Garber

  Long, Trying, Rooms

  "Victor Garber Talks BIG GAME, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE FLASH, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2015.

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• You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.

  Corey Taylor

  Passion, Artist, Thinking

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

  Sam Nunn

  Race, Cooperation, Threat

  "Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction". Panel Discussion, www.belfercenter.org. June 27, 2005.

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• Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Men, Worship, Eternal

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• We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

  Edmund Clowney

  Worship, Centre

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• This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Nature, Fear, Anger

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Soul, Holiness

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• Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Physiological

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

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• To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Silence, Refuse

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

  Peter Drucker

  Rights, Important Events, America

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, People, Love And Marriage

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

  Judith Martin

  Law, People, Missing

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Weather, Being Depressed

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• I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

  Twyla Tharp

  Years, Pages, Firsts

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• [On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.

  Diana Trilling

  Death, Loss, Thinking

  Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”

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• What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Brain, Doe, Chemicals

  Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, People, Taste

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• Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Healing, Three

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  You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Might, Able, Circumstances

  Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

  Margaret Millar

  Violence

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.71, Soho Press

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• I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

  Ntozake Shange

  Emotional, Ideas, Average

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• Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Dna, Blood

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Gone

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• Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.

  Lee Child

  New York, Children, Book

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