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Your Quotes for 14 September 2005 - Reactions

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born at Ryazan, Russia on this day in 1849. His father was a village priest and Ivan set out to train for the ministry but left the seminary to study physiology. He spent thirty years studying the learned (or conditioned) reactions in dogs, during which he used many stimuli beyond the ringing bell we normally associate with his name. Here are some thoughts on Reactions.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
     - Chris Evert

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
     - Rita Mae Brown

[Television] has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
     - Arthur M Schlesinger Jr

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.
     - George Santayana, 1863 - 1952

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
     - Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 1622 - 1673

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
     - Ani Difranco

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