Walter Mischel Quotes
James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
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What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
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You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.
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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
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Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.
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The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
