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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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