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William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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