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13535 quotesThey say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
Defense
Captain James
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Television
Clive James
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
Critics and Criticism
Clive James
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Life and Living
Henry James
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Animals
Henry James
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James
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The fatal futility of Fact.
Facts
Henry James
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James
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The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
Introspection
Henry James
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Fiction
Henry James
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Motives
Henry James
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God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
Effort
P. D. James
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Science and Scientists
P. D. James
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
Socializing and Socialism
William James
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Adversity
William James
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Ideas
William James
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Belief
William James
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Belief creates the actual fact.
Belief
William James
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Belief
William James
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Faith
William James
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
Writers and Writing
William James
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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
William James
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Miracles
William James
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
Imagination
William James
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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
Action
William James
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun