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“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.”

“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.”

Men Made Use Feelings Government Age Sex Differences Race Moral Elements Climate Various Metaphysics Metaphysical Employed Aesthetics

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying I Can Two Feelings Differences Pieces Cutting Ideals Lonely Increase Stress Intention Behave Splits Prove Myself Best Intentions

Author:Alan Watts

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.”

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“We talk to our guys all the time about the difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you do it all the time, even when you lost that feeling that you originally had when you you made the original commitment.”

Made Feelings Guy Lost Interest Differences Commitment Originals Committed Coaches Convenient

Author:Shaka Smart

“The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.”

Men Feels Feelings Differences Dog Conscious Lovely Delicate Delicacy Coarse

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.”

Thinking Men Feelings Differences Emotion Men And Women Connections Intimate Softness Differences Between Man And Woman Love Feeling Emotions Feelings

Author:David Bezmozgis

“There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.”

Knows Men May Character Feelings Differences Taste Wide Compliment Companionship Acquaintance Salute

Author:William Matthews

“There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.”

Real Feelings Courses Differences Sentiments Trash Shared Experiences

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.”

Needs Feelings Today Differences Wake Up Making A Difference Correctness

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.”

Art Two Different Done Feelings Form Differences Elements Narrative Fascinating Orchestration

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”

People Want Feels May Persons Different Feelings Wanted Lying Mother Differences Clear Theory Shame Guilt Guilty Ashamed Wrong Lied

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“You see, the difference is the Republicans' hatred of Obama is based on a paranoid feeling about what he might do, what he's thinking, what he secretly wants to change. Anger with Bush was based on what he actually did. What Bush was thinking didn't matter. Because he wasn't.”

Thinking Want Matter Feelings Might Differences Republican Hatred Paranoid

Author:Bill Maher

“As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.”

Knows Ideas Feelings Action House Differences Accepting Meaningful Radical Daring Sanctuary Fortresses Conceptualization

Author:Audre Lorde

“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.”

Way Feelings Problem Body Differences Quality Complexes Edges Relate Related Making A Difference Peculiar Recognizing Discomfort Implications Unclear Sensing

Author:Eugene Gendlin

“I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other people, and that comes with its pros and cons. I've accepted this is the kind of person that I am, and this is the path I've chosen in life - and I'm stickin' with it.”

People Kind Persons Feelings Differences Path Accepted Meaningful Chosen Making A Difference Gratification Pros And Cons

Author:Steve Grand

“Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Being frightened when you're not sure you're all right is a big difference.”

People Giving Book Feelings Bigs Able Reading Differences Safe Not Sure Rely Frightened Permission Terrified Delicious Safe Places

Author:Susan Hill

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.”

Made Said Feelings Reality Differences Religious Silence Acid Latent

Author:Robert Stone

“Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.”

Thinking Should Trying Sometimes Feelings Differences Powerful Effort Accepting Failing Right Now Succeed Exciting Lifetime Celebrate Productive Enjoyable

Author:Martha Beck

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

Persons Two Feelings Would Be Interest Challenges Differences Love Is Fashion Unity Deeper Attraction Characteristics Mutual Echoes Expansion Complementary Mutual Interest

Author:Felix Adler

“Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not letting myself get too hungry, not letting myself get too cold (I'm a person who is always cold), made a big difference. Partly because I felt happier, partly because feeling physically comfortable makes it easier to keep other difficult happiness-boosting resolutions like biting my tongue.”