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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. – William James

Other quotes by William James

Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – 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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William James
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power
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I think its child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, its at the cost of someones natural development. Its already hard enough to develop. – Alanis Morissette

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power

People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. – Jennifer Aniston

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power

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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power

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didnt have any creative power, nothing. I dont know that person any more. – Gwen Stefani

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power

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

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Vegetarianism

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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Carpe Diem

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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History

The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

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Future