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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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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
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If it works, it's true.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
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