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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

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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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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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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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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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Act the part and you will become the part.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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