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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

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I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart. ↗

— Keith Jarrett

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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. ↗

— Keith Jarrett

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I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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The family is the first essential cell of human society. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

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