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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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