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All Quotes Collection
"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."
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"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."
44
"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
38
"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."
45
"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."
49
"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
46
"I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing."
54
"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
44
"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
50
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
42
"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
41
"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
48
"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
54
"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
59
"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
39
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
73
"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."
55
"I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry."
42
"I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican."
39
"I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders."
44
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
36
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
161
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
42
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
57
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
70
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
52
"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
44
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
47
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
54
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
75
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
Act,
42
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
47
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
40
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
42
"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
216
"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
36
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
43
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
39
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
37
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
44
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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