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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combat Stress Weapons
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Lying Misunderstood Statistics
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Parts Small Use

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