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Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

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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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Men
Monogamous

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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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