William James Quotes
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
