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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
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