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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain 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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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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