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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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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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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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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply…
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In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
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Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.
— R. F. Delderfield
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One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it…
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From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all…
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States…
— Ronald Reagan
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist…
— Henry Miller
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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