William James Quotes
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child.
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The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
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The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
