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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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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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The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
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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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The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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