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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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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Intellectual Men Order
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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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Believe Ideas Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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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Art Force Process
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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