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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any atti

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse. – William James

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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate. – William James

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Sincerity
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William James
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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Truth
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I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. – Thornton Wilder

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. – Donald Knuth

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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. – Marvin Harris

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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. – Albert Einstein

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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. – Yeshe Dorje

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Very often, I dont make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. – David Ogden Stiers

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I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger. – Annabella Sciorra

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