We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We p...
WILLIAM JAMES Don't forget. In a years time you could be dead. Don't postpone a life for tomorrow that you can sta...
NICK KINSELLA

We are going to postpone that... we want to bring maximum relief and construction efforts,
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF I really think that we should postpone this.
RON JONES Employment's good and they traffic in consumables, so you can't postpone that forever.
DAN POPOWICS

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
MICHAEL D. HIGGINS Do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow.
VIKRANT PARSAI

I am going to postpone that (F-16s purchase)...but while we want to carry out massive relief and rec...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin...
ANDY STOLL If we continue to postpone funding, not only would we lose money, but we could be in violation of ou...
CHARLIE WILLIAMS We wouldn't think we'd have to postpone the game.
HERB VINCENT I said, 'Is he that good? Cody said, 'Mr. Fletcher he's worth every bit of that $330,000. That's wha...
CHARLES FLETCHER

I am going to postpone that (the jet purchase), ... We want to bring maximum relief and reconstructi...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF What good reason do you have to postpone your happiness?
JEFFREY BENJAMIN If we reopen it to negotiations, there will be chaos, and if we postpone it, it will be a negative s...
HERALDO MUNOZ If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED P. SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.
JOHNNY DEPP

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We will probably ask the court to postpone hearings to review the documents and thoroughly prepare f...
ANDREI MIRONOV Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The new protectionism we are now seeing ... is a wake-up call because it is the last stand from thos...
GORDON BROWN We must all know that our God is priceless, for he paid for everyone to celebrate their birthday onc...
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO They are trying to bloc further gains for us. Why else would they postpone?
ESSAM MUKHTAR You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA This setback raises serious concerns about our ability to deliver on time and to budget. If we are t...
HUGO SWIRE The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby sh...
AUBREY DE GREY We'll have to be respectful of our democratic institutions and postpone the celebration of our irrev...
OSCAR ARIAS Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long ...
TERTULLIAN For every one of those good deals, ... there are probably 200 that somebody paid more than they coul...
ERIC KNIGHT We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY While we had concerns about our officers driving high-mileage vehicles, we felt it was far more impo...
BECKY MENDEZ we can simultaneously be human and monster—that both of those possibilities are in all of us.
MATTHEW QUICK I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
JIM ROHN High price must be paid for anything that is good.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on altern...
MARCIA ANGELL We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGES They listened to our arguments and have agreed to postpone the cull, but we don't know for how long....
RUDI AARDE The original schedule was late in January but the president has decided to postpone until the mid-Fe...
DESRA PERCAYA We have a good business in Brazil and an internal study shows a second paper machine would be profit...
JAN OKSUM Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible e...
MAHATMA GANDHI Expectations inspire us to live for every second we pass of our life span.But there are moments whic...
NISHI DE SILVA Microsoft wants to postpone as long as possible the creation of a document that describes how the co...
WILLIAM KOVACIC William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. �...
GEORGE SHEEHAN To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must ...
LIN BIAO Most companies will wait until the very last moment, even weeks, before they officially postpone. It...
DAVID MCMILLAN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...
JOHN F. KENNEDY It would be better if there were a deal to postpone the second edition.
FIRMAN GANI We'd like to thank the AFC for their foresight in offering the option to postpone the 1 March matche...
JOHN O'NEILL I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must ...
LIN BIAO We found out going to Beaufort on the fifth of January that she needed a liver transplant and was in...
MATTHEW BRADBERRY There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN If they will issue a constitution without our agreement, we will hamper the political process and mo...
SALEH AL-MUTLAQ We had to postpone them a week because (film critic) Roger Ebert wanted them to appear on his televi...
LEE WARREN Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective
SUNDAY ADELAJA If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you ...
HORACE To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.
DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ We are disappointed to have to postpone our grand opening of Klein Family Field, but you can't fight...
LYNN KING We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding
JOHN MARSHALL Saddam's trial date is scheduled for October 19 and it is not possible to postpone this case which h...
IBRAHIM JAAFARI Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky; they cannot injure the blue dept...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
G.I. GURDJIEFF We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica...
G.K. CHESTERTON There were questions about whether we would postpone the game, but she would not have wanted that. S...
STEPHANIE FERLITA Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our house...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The Easter effect is a reality. If you go on vacation later, you postpone your shopping.
CHRISTINE CHEN We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ...
WENDELL BERRY Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
TIM FOLEY Buyers were faced with higher mortgage rates, increased inventory levels, and bold predictions of ma...
DAVID WLUKA We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be pa...
DAVID SHIELDS There is no better moment to postpone something you don't want to do other than right now.
ANONYMOUS It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the worl...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world
CESARE PAVESE After complete discussion with our veterinarian, the State Veterinarian, and counsel of veterinarian...
PAT GOGGINS I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towa...
PAUL KRUGMAN Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love t...
MUNIA KHAN We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what i...
ISHMAEL BEAH Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
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WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the mater...
WILLIAM JAMES

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

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William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

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