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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

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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
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
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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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Every claim creates an obligation.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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What holds attention determines action.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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