James Harvey Robinson Quotes
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Quotes to Explore
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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Pilates is great.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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I work twice as hard as everybody else.
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By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
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Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
