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Quote by William James
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our th

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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. – William James

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Life
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. – William James

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Poverty
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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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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. – Leonardo da Vinci

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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. – William Shatner

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Truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. Thats the funniest joke in the world. – Muhammad Ali

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell

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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing theyre whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever theyve got. I cant possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. – Billy Tauzin

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