William James Quotes
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Life is earnest, art is gay.
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The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects, of all officers, and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence.
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I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
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But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
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I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
