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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. ↗

— William James

#awareness #being #conscious #known #means

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

#community #dies #impulse #individual #sympathy

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. ↗

— Allison Janney

#drawback #good #growing #growing up #height

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#bit #career #did #feel #flagging

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#alive #away #challenge #challenging #experience

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#classes #ended #even #films #go

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#i think #outlaw #poets #think #visionaries

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#desert #enters #extend #i #lawrence