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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely r

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. – William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. – William James

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Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose Ive got people up here who Im really tight with, weve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and Ive got people in my corner I can trust. – Jonathan Brown

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. – John Adams

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them. – Thomas A. Edison

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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. – Vernor Vinge

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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