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"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
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"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."
"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."
"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
"We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."
"But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy."
"I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
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