William James Quotes
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.
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I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
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I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.
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I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
