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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

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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
Omega
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Affection
Touch

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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
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But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
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We can act as if there were a God feel as if we were free consider Nature as if she were full of special designs lay plans as if we were to be immortal and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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