William James Quotes
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.
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A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
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Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
