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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.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
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In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
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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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Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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