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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.


Chauncey Wright

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EDGAR WRIGHT Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complac...
EDGAR WRIGHT Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT I WUV FOOD
~Bricks+Skittles+Oreos=MY LIFE~
DORTEA WRIGHT You can buy business by selling below cost to drive new sales and a lot of time companies will do th...
ALAN WRIGHT If they run a promotion and have a real low price, then that's going to lower in the whole area the ...
ALAN WRIGHT You're competing against the guy across the street and so the market is set by the local competition...
ALAN WRIGHT It was a poor match and a lot of the anglers who took part found it difficult to catch.
ALAN WRIGHT Now I have received an invoice for the whole period from 2003 to date. Again my email was not answer...
ALAN WRIGHT We continue to face logistical issues in getting fuel to Pilot Travel Centers and some short-term in...
ALAN WRIGHT A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.
ALAN WRIGHT Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effe...
ALAN WRIGHT It is unclear when refining capacity will be restored, but it is estimated these refineries will be ...
ALAN WRIGHT Prices on the wholesale market have been up sharply the past several days. As a retailer, we have fi...
ALAN WRIGHT Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unkn...
FRANCES WRIGHT If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
FRANCES WRIGHT Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
FRANCES WRIGHT It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...
FRANCES WRIGHT He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,...
FRANCES WRIGHT The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
FRANCES WRIGHT It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the...
FRANCES WRIGHT These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may a...
FRANCES WRIGHT There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights o...
FRANCES WRIGHT Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
FRANCES WRIGHT Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have...
FRANCES WRIGHT Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at t...
FRANCES WRIGHT Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong a...
FRANCES WRIGHT Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
FRANCES WRIGHT Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, w...
FRANCES WRIGHT Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no lon...
FRANCES WRIGHT If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all th...
FRANCES WRIGHT The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed ...
FRANCES WRIGHT All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your ...
FRANCES WRIGHT Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...
FRANCES WRIGHT No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.
ORVILLE WRIGHT The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT