Samuel Alexander Quotes
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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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Africa has no future.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.
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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
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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.
