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There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

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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
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Flamboyantly
Exceptions
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Immediately
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
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Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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