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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. -- Emma Goldman
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. -- W. Edwards Deming
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. -- Sarah Bernhardt
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. -- Samuel Alexander
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. -- Victor Hugo
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. -- Steven Pinker
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes. -- Emerson Fittipaldi
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. -- Noam Chomsky
Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex. -- Tom Stoppard
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing. -- Jimmy Carr
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. -- Ernie Harwell
Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work. -- Steven Yeun
It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel. -- Fred Ward
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable. -- Damien Chazelle
At my shows, I want to be totally sharp and focused on every single song, on every single thing that I do, and plus, I have to because I'm, like, caking someone and have to run back and mix the next song... and I have so much fast, quick reflex timing. -- Steve Aoki
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response. -- Terry Eagleton
If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex. -- Jeremy Grantham
Joy is the reflex of terror. -- Victor Hugo
Caring is a reflex...You live, you help. -- Ram Dass
Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving. -- Sam Storms
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. -- Jim Butcher
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world. -- Karl Marx
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage. -- Tara Moss
It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity. -- Seth Godin
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. -- Ilona Andrews
I'm not a reflex goalie. I try to make as many stops as possible with with my stomach. -- Jean-Sebastien Giguere
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first. -- Etgar Keret
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' -- Declan Donnellan
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. -- Timothy Leary
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. -- Alfred de Musset
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles. -- Joseph Pilates
Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away. -- Kenneth Keating
I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed. -- eL Seed
Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help. -- Ram Dass
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them. -- Ricky Gervais
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex. -- Garrison Keillor
Look its very simple: You're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. You dare to be bad, I've got good reflex. Can go to bad bitch mode in no time. -- Shreya Gupta
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. -- Francis Schaeffer
[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits. -- Sam Brownback
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth -- Jacques Ellul
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others. -- Anuj
It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think. -- Bill Sharman
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other. -- Emma Goldman
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc. -- Henry Miller
To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold. -- Jean Klein
For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body. -- Edgar Cayce

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