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"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"It is well to think well; it is divine to act well."
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"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."
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"I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from."
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"All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation."
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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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"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
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
Life
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
Act
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
Life
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
Perception
"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."
Business
"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."
Desire
"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."
Time
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
Expectation
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
Conation
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