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“That reality is independent means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
—William James (18421910)
“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by the childrens imminent or actual departurefathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husbands distress”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“The members of a body-politic call it the state when it is passive, the sovereign when it is active, and a power when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title people, and they refer to one another individually as citizens when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as subjects when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778)