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

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
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

Decision Order Responsibility
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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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Art Life Positive
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social

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