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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Philosophical
Business
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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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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What a teacher needs to know about psychology might almost be written on the palm of one's hand.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings fame is a breath love is a cheat youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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