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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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