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"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."
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"I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."
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"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
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"You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image."
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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."
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"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
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"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."
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"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
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"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
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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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