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No decision is, in itself, a decision.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
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