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according to Newton's third law, every action has an opposite reaction. However, this does not always result in acceleration. As a counterexample, consider pushing on a sturdy wall. You are pushing (that's the "action"). The "reaction" is the wall pushing back on you (if it didn't push back, you would fall through the wall). But since the forces are balanced, nothing accelerates.

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