William James Quotes
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
Quotes to Explore
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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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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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
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Sleep is getting to be like gold.
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I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.
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Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.
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I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.
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I'd love to do a big hair campaign for L'Oreal, and Prada would be great, too, obviously.
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I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
