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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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