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

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
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Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.
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