William James Quotes
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Samuel Adams
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
Tecumseh
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
Ice Cube
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.
Milos Forman
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
Cormac McCarthy
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian
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Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.
Keith Barry
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I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.
Jean Craighead George
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
