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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates t

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

Other quotes by William James

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

Category:
Faith
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William James
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James

Category:
Change
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William James
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy
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William James
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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. – Josephine Hart

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Adversity

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

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Adversity

Any port in a storm. – Scottish Proverb

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Adversity

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer, Iliad

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Adversity

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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the attention of perfectionists. – Heywood Hale Broun

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Sports :: Golf

Upper classes are a nations past the middle class is its future. – Ayn Rand

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Future

This is like the telephone problem – no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem. – Eric Allman

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Technology