William James Quotes
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.
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We have to respect and cherish our police.
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."
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My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
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Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.
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We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
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We said very clearly that the withdrawal has to be total; it has to be the end of the occupation.
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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
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We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over the waves. The summer weather blessed us with clear skies and tame waters. We did have a couple of times when we had to put in to shore quickly to wait out a thunderstorm. I think Zeus didn’t want our quest to become too comfortable.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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Art is only abstract when you look the other way.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
