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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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There is a voice inside which speaks and says, This is the real me!
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
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