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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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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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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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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
— Joseph Barbera
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement.…
— Sam Abell
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Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
— William James
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It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of…
— Bessie Head
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally…
— E. M. Forster
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the…
— Ma Jian
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