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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-- James D. Nicoll

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-- William James

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
-- Harold Nicolson

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
-- James Thurber

"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
-- James Madison

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

So where are all the lust-crazed engineering groupies that my college recruiter talked about ?
-- James Knowles

A age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener ("Space")

Do just once what others say you can't do,
and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

-- James R. Cook

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell

"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
-- James Fenimore Cooper