William James Quotes
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.
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I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
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There are a plenty of shots that I have been amazed by, but a lot of these shots are played because you have worn an iron mask. Take away the protection, and let me see if they play them. Don't forget that the past players did not have any protection.
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I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
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I'm no Bob Gibson. I can tell you that.
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It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
