William James Quotes
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I grew up in Mumbai.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Being here: in a particular time and place. That is the existential position with particular implications for literature.
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All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.
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Maybe it's all in my head. feel like leaving but I don't really want toBut I feel so misled, a kiss through the phone just won't do, no'Cause from my point of view, I gotta saySomething 'bout you, so tell me, babySomewhere down the road I think you lost it allNow it's all in my head
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Communism was the regime for the privileged elite, capitalism the creed for the common man.
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The Minimalists were nonobjective. They just recorded beauty, I guess, without the emotions - or at least without personal emotions. My work is a little more emotional than that.
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A people that began to think as citizens rather than subjects might transcend underdevelopment on their own. Inalienable human right is unique in that it needs no superhuman guarantee; no 'fount' except itself. Only servility requires the realm (suggestive word) of illusion. Illusions, of course, cannot be abolished. But they can and must be outgrown.
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The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.
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'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.
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I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think it's about following your instincts and doing a film for the right reason.
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Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
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If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
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If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
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There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.
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Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
