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William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Habit 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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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