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WILLIAM JAMESHabit 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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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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