James later wrote that he should have called the essay “the right to believe,” to indicate his intent to justify holding certain beliefs in certain circumstances, not to claim that we can (or should) believe things simply by an act of will.
"His numerous friends do not like the false newspaper picture of him, as a pauper and anti-social recluse. ... Bill Sidis was a quiet man who enjoyed the normal things of life.
William J. Flynn, former Chief of the Secret Service, and then head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, had a free hand in attempts to run down perpetrators of the bomb outrages.
Six months later, Susan toddled into Budapest’s smoke-filled chess club,” which was crowded with elderly men, and proceeded to beat the veteran players.
With his ghostly complexion, floppy white hair and droning bass monotone, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange not only behaves like a character sprung to life from a science-fiction screenplay but he even looks and sounds like one.
1898 (Mdcccxcviii) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 898th year of…