"How many of us persist in a..." - Quote by William James
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
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“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”
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“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.”
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“Little minds think and talk about people.Average minds think and talk about things and actions.Great minds think and talk about ideas.”
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