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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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