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Littles Quotes by William James
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will…
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- [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
- We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should…
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave…
- We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling…
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever…
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
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