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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But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
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We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
