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7190 quotesThere is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Business
Randall Jacobs
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People would rather be wrong than be different.
Originality
Henry Jacobsen
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I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.
Song and Singing
Mick Jagger
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Education
Alice James
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They 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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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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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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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Risk
William James
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Freedom
William James
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Immortality
William James
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The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Approval
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