Quotes with volition

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• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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• The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

  Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-interest
• self-service
• faculties
• automatic
• escalator
• cafeteria

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