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Moment Quotes by William James
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we…
- We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
- Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really…
- For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
- Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
- To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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