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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ↗

— William James

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

#community #dies #impulse #individual #sympathy

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— 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

#cheap #pay #price #quality #sought

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#does #man #never #pay #second

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money. ↗

— Bill Janklow

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