William James Quotes
... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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“They remained silent, while the bronze tolling passed over their heads so powerfully that they seemed to hear it in the very roots of their hair like a quiver of their flesh.”
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The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.
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I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
