"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
-William James
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.“
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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
-William James
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"Belief creates the actual fact."
-William James
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
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-Hunter S. Thompson
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."
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"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
-George Brett
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