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William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy

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