Quote by William James
If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supr

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

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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Faith
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. – William James

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great
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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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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. – James Baldwin

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Experience

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. – Ziggy Marley

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Experience

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. – Arthur Erickson

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Experience

I dont think Ive ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldnt be ours anymore. – Steve Jobs

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Experience

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton

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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. – Euripides

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Prudence

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Men want to make women happy. – Jerry Seinfeld

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