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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

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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
Facts
Enough
Combine
Sure

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Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.
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But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
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