Quote by William James
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a targ

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James

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Stress
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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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Books

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Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. Its made everyone overly opinionated. – Scott Weiland

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Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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One of the things Ive always liked about my husband is hes very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so hes very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. – Ally Condie

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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. – Channing Pollock

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Home