Quote by William James
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. – William James

Other quotes by William James

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Miscellaneous
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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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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

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Business

Americas political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. – Al Gore

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Business

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I dont want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business. – Joe Nichols

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Business

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Business

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Fish and guests smell at three days old. – Danish proverb

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Guests

Its amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months youre on the street, begging. – Paz de la Huerta

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amazing

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, its kind of a lifestyle and its easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyones doing a certain thing… Its tough. – Eminem

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funny

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. – Samuel Johnson

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Rhetoric