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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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I don't sing because I'm happy I'm happy because I sing.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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