William James Quotes
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
Uday Kotak
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
Oksana Baiul
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
Victoria de los Angeles
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
Zach Braff
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
Lana Parrilla
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
Gail Sheehy
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Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
Baruch Spinoza
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
Zig Ziglar
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An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
Anthony Trollope
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie
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Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes: whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.
Aristotle
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An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
Lois McMaster
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
Kenneth Tynan
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
William James
