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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMES

Humorous Life Philosophical
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES

Devil Feet Long
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Men Philosophy
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMES

Interesting Most Personal

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