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Quote by William James
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty,

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James

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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. – William James

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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother? – Sydney J. Harris

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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. – Henry David Thoreau

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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didnt do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate. – Jeremy Rifkin

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