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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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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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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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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In Asia, I didn't feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.
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A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'
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The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
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We are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.
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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.
