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Forms Quotes by William James
- 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…
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
- 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…
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- I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. — Travis Barker
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar… — John Keats
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — Oscar Wilde