Quote by William James
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterfer

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – 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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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

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Change
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. – Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics

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Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger

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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. – Sir Winston Churchill

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I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board. – Sophia Bush

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder

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