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“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.”

Way Long Feelings Found Felt Growing Up Growing Long Time Lonely Accounts Obsession So Lonely Found Someone

Author:Lana Del Rey

“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”

Humans Stories Feelings Pleasure Strange Involved Accounts Ghost Our Love Craving Ghost Stories

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.”

Men Wells Philosophy Feelings Study Doubt Offers Accounts Philosophical Satisfaction Refuse Conviction Innocent Rejects Skepticism Inclination Careless Scruples Sceptic

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Trying Ends Hard Play Shows Feelings Three Courses Four Week New York Terrible Eating Okay Accounts Eight Tomatoes

Author:Richard Ayoade

“Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.”

Book Feelings Criticism Accounts Critics Literary Criticism Impertinence

Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.”

Thinking Giving Important Feelings Problem Happens Fighting Energy Attitude Taken Nice Dangerous Waste Accounts Warm Nervous Positive Attitude More Time Permit Clients Dangerous Things

Author:Leo Burnett

“I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.”

Giving Writing Trying Looks Long Has Beens Hard Feelings Young Space Fiction Long Time Accounts Shoulders Who I Am Make Sense Looking Back Weird Things Writing Fiction

Author:Tim Winton

“Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.”

Ifs Persons Country Feelings Government Opinion Clear Accounts Trials Portions

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”

Way Giving May Self Character Feelings Order Force Creative Expression Accounts Practicals Discomfort Good Way Uneasy Dissatisfied

Author:William Morris

“I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.”

Way Giving Believe Facts Feelings Order Wish Sides Imagination My Own Honest Pure Accounts Remains Lazy Hypothesis Unifying Rigour Sulky

Book:The diary of Antoine Roquentin

Source: The diary of Antoine Roquentin

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

Mind Wells Soul States Feelings Values Attitude Capable Accounts Helpful Honored Usefulness Plenitude

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.”

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.”

“Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.”

Giving Art War Feelings Fighting Results Enemy Position Higher Battle Accounts Angry Meetings Ruins Chiefs Officers Resentment Art Of War Commanders Strategist Commander In Chief

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.”

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Mind May Facts Feelings Science Habit Judgment Accounts Function Recognition Characteristics Significance Relative Sequence Classification Frame Of Mind Personal Feelings

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.”

Doe Feelings Dream Science Chance Laughter Accounts Addresses Paradox Superficial Pretentious Things I Love

Book:My Last Breath

Source: My Last Breath

“There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.”

“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Way Feelings Body Easy Accounts Complicated Acquire Clothings

Book:Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

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