"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."

-- Samuel Alexander

#Real Quotes #Elements Quotes #Cognition Quotes

“I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs...A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.”
“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”
“Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.”
“Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't.”
“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA
“Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.”
“Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.”

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