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Quote by William James
[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when t
[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. – William James

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Faith
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William James
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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

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Emotions
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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. – Confucius, Analects

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

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Thinking

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860

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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. – Niels Bohr

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Thinking

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Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. – Jesus Christ

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Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. – Jacques Seguela

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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that theyre somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? – Dan Savage

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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. Its a way of life for me. – Ayrton Senna

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