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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 man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
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What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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I don't sing because I'm happy I'm happy because I sing.
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In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
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