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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."
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"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."
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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
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"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
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