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"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."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"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."
Act
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
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"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
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"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."
Thought
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
Act
"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."
Meaning
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"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."
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"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
Perception
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