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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings fame is a breath love is a cheat youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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