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Quote by William James
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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Whenever youre in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James

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Attitude
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William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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Failure
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William James
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Language
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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Language

Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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Language

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Language

Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

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Language

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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. – Max Muller

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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president. – David Herbert Donald

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Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. – Robert Frost

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle

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