William James Quotes
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.William James
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
Irena Sendler -
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
Naftali Bennett -
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Barry Commoner -
Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer -
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
We should have more invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
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.
Han Suyin -
I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
Christina Aguilera -
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung -
Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
Garry Winogrand
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
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.
Wayne Shorter -
What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
Ted Dekker -
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
Andrew Mason -
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Angelina Jolie -
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Ann Druyan
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
Herbert Spencer -
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Geoffrey Miller -
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Silius Italicus -
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
Wolfgang Weingart -
I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
Carrie Fisher -
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William James