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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain c

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. – William James

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

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Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. – Saint Augustine

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are many people in the world who really dont understand-or say they dont-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! – John F. Kennedy

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I havent really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, Son, that is where you need to go. – Robert Pattinson

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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I dont believe in God because I dont believe in Mother Goose – Clarence Darrow

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