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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
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Monogamous
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To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.
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Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
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An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: There is very little difference between one man and another but what little there is, is very important. This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
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I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology might almost be written on the palm of one's hand.
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Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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