William James Quotes
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
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Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
