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“A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.”

May Conditions Constitution Reactions Rational Engaged Folly Guarantees Excess Irrational Rivals Opposing Degenerates Credulity Slender Scepticism

Author:William E. Gladstone

“People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.”

People Heart Stills Shows Able Mistake Conditions Determine Seeking Reactions Making Mistakes Corrections Rebuke God Is Able

Book:Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Source: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

“You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.”

Might Realizing Emotion Conditions Wind Cold Rain Reactions Resistance

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”

Self Age Memories Conditions Youth Bird Reactions Old Age Display Degenerates Forgetful Incorrigible

Book:The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.”

“Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met”

Growth Conditions Mets Reactions Change And Growth

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.”

Way Firsts Certain House Cities Conditions Possibility Projects London Reactions Frustration Subconscious Norm New Possibilities Being Played

Author:David Adjaye

“Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.”

Men War Effort Conditions Patient Conservative Careful Reactions

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life