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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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
Increasing
Heat
Woods
Service
Follow
Becoming
Focus
Pile
Great
Wood

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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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