William James Quotes
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
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Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
