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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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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…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
— Jacques Barzun
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Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
— Glenn Beck
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool…
— Benjamin Carson
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by…
— Hilary Putnam
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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are…
— N.K. Jemisin
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt…
— Adolf Hitler
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