William James Quotes
... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
Quotes to Explore
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I think people should find themselves being entertained by something that's worth being entertained by.
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You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.
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Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.
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They're looking at the cold weather coming. That's what you're seeing in the market right now.
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The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.
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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
