William James Quotes
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
Quotes to Explore
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
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It may be called the Master Passion-the hunger for Self-Approval.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
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Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
