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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Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.
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You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.
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Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.
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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
