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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
Combine
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Facts
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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
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If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
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