William James Quotes
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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Evils draw men together.
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A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
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When Rabbit first began to drive the road was full of old fogeys going too slow and now it seems nothing but kids in a hell of a hurry, pushing. Let 'em by, is his motto. Maybe they'll kill themselves on a telephone pole in the next mile. He hopes so.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
