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Quote by William James
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practicall

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. – William James

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Faith
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William James
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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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Experience
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. – William James

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Vacations
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. – Cher

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Men

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. – Avicenna

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. – Lester B. Pearson

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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Dr. Alexis Carrel

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I have a right to my anger, and I dont want anybody telling me I shouldnt be, that its not nice to be, and that somethings wrong with me because I get angry. – Maxine Waters

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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