William James Quotes
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
William James
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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.
Sam Houston
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
Mahershala Ali
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
Naomi Watts
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
Edgardo Osorio
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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.
Dale T. Mortensen
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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.
Garth Brooks
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Eduard Hanslick
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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.
Olga Korbut
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
B. F. Skinner
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
Francis Bacon
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
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I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
Og Mandino
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Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'
Lara Stone
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
William James
