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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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University Teacher
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.
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An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: There is very little difference between one man and another but what little there is, is very important. This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
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The perfection of rottenness.
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