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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

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 minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
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Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.
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If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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