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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

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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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Inarticulate
Friendships
Men

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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