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I don't sing because I'm happy I'm happy because I sing.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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It is your friends who make your world.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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