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  • I have spent most of my life re-acting to circumstances, but now I am choosing to remain balanced, calm and at peace inside.

    Marjorie Hope Rothstein: What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011? Marjorie Hope Rothstein 2011

  • I have spent most of my life re-acting to circumstances, but now I am choosing to remain balanced, calm and at peace inside.

    Marjorie Hope Rothstein: What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011? Marjorie Hope Rothstein 2011

  • - Mark Walhberg is re-acting his part in The departed

    The Other Guys Teaser Trailer | /Film 2010

  • But a big speech isn't any more more of a change agent than this, what is called here, a "letter writing campaign." also. she initiated the confrontation. so while she's re-acting here to cheney's statements, the first shot was fired by her. so it's not a re-active effort in it's inception.

    Hillary Blasts Cheney In Letter To Bush 2009

  • You may feel as if you're a supporting character, randomly re-acting to circumstances beyond your control, but the truth is you are here, the play is going on and no one, including the most powerful 'characters' around you, have any more foreknowledge past what the very next line might be.

    James M. Lynch: Star of Your Own Life 2009

  • Near the end of this surprisingly suspenseful novel, Barrett quotes from a chemistry textbook: “Every chemical … reaction … can only take place under a condition of most intimate and close contact of the re-acting substances.”

    Cover to Cover 2007

  • Near the end of this surprisingly suspenseful novel, Barrett quotes from a chemistry textbook: “Every chemical … reaction … can only take place under a condition of most intimate and close contact of the re-acting substances.”

    Cover to Cover 2007

  • This is what the media has been reduced to - re-acting to name calling?

    Tina Dupuy: Insane in the Middle Name 2008

  • So how do we get the Dems to stop re-acting and become pro-active?

    Firedoglake » Image May Not Be Everything…. 2006

  • It has been in those cases that people start over re-acting. 3rdly, good luck petite anglaise.

    suspendered 2006

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