William James Quotes
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
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As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.
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It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
