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Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

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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
Tell
Live
Everything
Good

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A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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