A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
More William James Quotes
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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