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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. ↗

— Robert Byrne

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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. ↗

— Loni Anderson

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