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Their Own Quotes by William James
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- 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…
- Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what…
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu