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The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.


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JAMES HOWE Are you still mad at me?"
"Yes."
"I'll go back to sleep, then."
"Good.
E.L. JAMES Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered ...
JAMES BALDWIN Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
WILLIAM JAMES If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
WILLIAM JAMES Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
JAMES RESTON I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
HENRY JAMES If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.
JAMES PHILLIPS The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be...
JAMES RESTON Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
JAMES CARSWELL I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ...
JAMES BROWN Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
JAMES DUFFECY That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE I learned from Bruce Lee, Be like water and Gil Grissom from CSI, Be like sponge.
JAMES DYE The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
HENRY JAMES Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMES The fatal futility of Fact.
HENRY JAMES