Quote by William James
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only t

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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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

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Worth
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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work
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin

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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Sincerity

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Sincerity

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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Sincerity

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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion. – Vicente Fox

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Experience

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. – James A. Michener

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Courage

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people theyre trying to keep out. – Calvin Trillin

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Food