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Cases Quotes by William James
- The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered…
- Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
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