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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

William James

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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
Imagination
Anything
May
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Hold

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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
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To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
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Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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