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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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 one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
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As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.
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