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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
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