William James Quotes
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
Quotes to Explore
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
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Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.
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We are very, very, very concerned with the situation.
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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Donald Trump has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
