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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…
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The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…
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More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those…
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that…
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…
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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the…
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically…
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or…
— Maya Angelou
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer…
— Unknown Author
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that…
— Andre Gide
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
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In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the…
— Konrad Lorenz
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
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