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Different Quotes by William James
- If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
- A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with…
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
- There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
- It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there…
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity… — Albert Einstein
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong