- William James
(01/11/1842 – 08/26/1910)
US writer, psychologist
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
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| "My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me." |  |
"Gentlemen prefer bonds."
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"Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, stronger is music than death."
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"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."
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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
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"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the
aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."
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"That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool."
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap."
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| Died 08/25 | Died 08/26 | Died 08/27 | Death Dates |